Lowering the bar

Lowering the Bar: Inre

Misdemeanor child molestation, rape, promotion of prostitution, and forcible sodomy: fourteen and sixteen.1 Eight rapes, effectuated through death threats and excessive force: twelve and thirteen.2 First degree sexual abuse and sexual misconduct: five and four. 3 These are some of the offenses for which three of Missouri's sexually violent predators ("SVP") 4 have been convicted and a sampling ...

Lowering the Bar for Creating Model-Tracing Intelligent Tutoring Systems

The main goal of the work presented here is to allow for the broader dissemination of intelligent tutoring technology. To accomplish this goal, we have two clear objectives. First, we want to allow different types of people to author model-tracing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) than can now do so. Second, we want to enable an author to create a tutor for software that was not initially des...

Mitochondrial Priming : “ Lowering ” the Bar for Chemotherapeutic Success

Restoring integrity to the scientific literature: Lowering the bar to raise our standards

Taxpayer-funded research has revolutionized every aspect of our lives. Although the US has fallen to 10th place among nations of the world in terms of percent of gross domestic product spent on research and development (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014), we nonetheless support a biomedical research enterprise that is unparalleled. This model of public funding for works that support p...

Lowering targets for hemoglobin A1c in children with type 1 diabetes: raising the bar.

Nambam B, Hirsch IB, Danne T, Schatz D. Lowering targets for hemoglobin A1c in children with type 1 diabetes: raising the bar. Pediatric Diabetes 2014. Bimota Nambama, Irl B Hirschb, Thomas Dannec and Desmond Schatzd aPediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA; bDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, ...