Financial Market Efficiency Should be Gauged in Relative Rather than Absolute Terms

Short-latency ocular following in humans is dependent on absolute (rather than relative) binocular disparity

A previous study showed that the initial ocular following responses elicited by sudden motion of a large random-dot pattern were only modestly attenuated when that whole pattern was shifted out of the plane of fixation by altering its horizontal binocular disparity, but the same disparity applied to a restricted region of the dots had a much more powerful effect [Vision Research 41 (2001) 3371]...

Measurements Should Generate Value, Rather than Data

Success factors for measurement programs as identified in the literature typically focus on the ‘internals’ of the measurement program: incremental implementation, support from management, a well-planned metrics framework, and so on. However, for a measurement program to be successful within its larger organizational context, it has to generate value for the organization. This implies that atte...

Visual recovery after monocular deprivation is driven by absolute, rather than relative, visually evoked activity levels

It is now well established that the anatomical and functional development of the central visual pathways of a number of higher mammalian species is activity-dependent [1-3]. This dependence was revealed by the functional effects of an early period of monocular deprivation, where one eye of a young animal was deprived for a time of patterned visual input. Subsequently, most cells in the visual c...

Dm rather than Dw should be used in Monte Carlo treatment planning. Against the proposition.

Suggestions for topics suitable for these Point/Counterpoint debates should be addressed to the Moderator: William R. Hendee, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: [email protected]. Persons participating in Point/Counterpoint discussions are selected for their knowledge and communicative skill. Their positions for or against a proposition may or may not reflect their personal opinions or the ...

Measuring improvement in dyspnoea: should absolute or relative values be used?