Dispelling Myths Surrounding AAC Use for Children: Recommendations for Professionals

Rhinophyma: dispelling the myths.

Rhinophyma is a relatively common condition in the west of Scotland. The Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit receives 12 to 13 new patients per year for surgical treatment. The reported incidence of simultaneous carcinoma in the setting of rhinophyma is on the order of 15 to 30 percent. There are conflicting reports about the association between alcohol and rhinophyma in the literature, and these ...

Dispelling the Myths of Panic

IN BRIEF •Research regarding human behavior in disaster and emergency scenarios contradicts commonly held beliefs regarding the propensity for people to panic and perform other antisocial behaviors. •Empirical data show that typical human behavior in disaster and emergency scenarios is prosocial, based on social relations and norms. •Although social, typical human behaviors in disaster and emer...

Dispelling Seven Myths about Grid Resource Management

Grid resource management is often viewed as scheduling for large, long-running, compute-intensive, parallel applications. This view is narrow, as we will argue in this article. Grids today encompass diverse resources including machines, users and applications. Moreover, grid users make different demands from different resources. Therefore, grid infrastructures must adopt a greater responsibilit...

Emergency contraception: dispelling the myths and misperceptions.

Soy and Your Health: Dispelling the Myths

Soyfoods have been a part of Asian diets for centuries. Today, there is a growing interest in these foods among westerners because of their proposed health benefits and also because their versatility makes them valuable for replacing meat and dairy foods in the diet. Nevertheless, the role of soyfoods in a healthy diet has become somewhat of a confusing issue in recent years because of concerns...