Lactoferrin is an important factor when breastfeeding and COVID‐19 are considered

To What Extent Vital Signs Are Important to Medical Toxicologists When Conflicts Arise in Defining Toxidroms

Are Seven-game Baseball Playoffs Fairer than Five-game Series When Home-field Advantage Is Considered?

Conventional wisdom in baseball circles holds that a seven-game playoff series is fairer than a five-game series. In an earlier paper, E. Lee May, Jr. showed that, treating each game as an independent event, a seven-game series is not significantly fairer. In this paper, we take a different approach, taking homefield advantage into account. That is, we consider a given series to consist of two ...

Is assisted peritoneal dialysis associated with technique survival when competing events are considered?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study assessed whether assisted peritoneal dialysis (PD) was associated with a lower risk for technique failure using methods developed for survival analysis in the presence of competing risks. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS This retrospective cohort study, based on data from the French Language Peritoneal Dialysis Registry, analyzed 9822 incident...

When size is not important any more

Wireless phone companies, especially with number portability, sell a product that is less and less different, that is to say, a commodity. That is the reason scale economies play a very important role in this market. Given that it is not possible to make a large margin on the service that they offer, companies must focus their strategies on saving costs. Moreover, the more clients a company has...

When is vestibular information important during walking?

Locomotion relies on vision, somatosensory input, and vestibular information. Both vision and somatosensory signals have been shown to be phase dependently modulated during locomotion; however, the regulation of vestibular information has not been investigated in humans. By delivering galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to subjects at either heel contact, mid-stance, or toe-off, it was possib...