Moving goal posts

Mastitis Therapy on Farm - Keeping up with the Moving Goal Posts

Attitudes to treating mastitis have changed in response to techniques of therapy and more recently in response to marketing needs for milk. This has led to a need to re-assess the types of treatment available and the aims of using any form of treatment. Different approaches are recommended for different conditions. Aggressive treatment may be used to tackle infections by Streptococcus uberis or...

Targets and moving goal posts: changes in waiting times in a UK emergency department.

OBJECTIVES To describe changes in the case mix, demographics, waiting times (WTs; time from arrival in the emergency department (ED) until seen by a clinician) and treatment times (TTs; time from seeing a clinician until leaving the ED) of adult patients presenting to the EDs in Sheffield, UK, between 1993 and 2003. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of routinely collected data. RESULTS Of a t...

Commonsense Reasoning about Moving Objects: an Elusive Goal

Reasoning about how objects move and interact in space is pervasive in evcryday life. It is rightly considered an essential component of intelligence. Consequently, understanding spatial reasoning and developing computational models for it has been a central concern in many fields, including cognitive psychology, mathematics, robotics, vision, and artificial intelligence. Although much progress...

Millennium Development Goal 5 and adolescents: looking back, moving forward

Since the Millennium Declaration in 2000, unprecedented progress has been made in the reduction of global maternal mortality. Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5; improving maternal health) includes two primary targets, 5A and 5B. Target 5A aimed for a 75% reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR), and 5B aimed to achieve universal access to reproductive health. Globally, maternal...

Motion Coordination in Dynamic Environments: Reaching a Moving Goal while Avoiding Moving Obstacles