Now You Be the Judge

Now you be the judge.

Does the abstract follow the required format? Is there a description of what was studied and why? Is the question, hypothesis, or goal stated? Do the authors indicate how the study was performed? Does the abstract include the important results? Does the abstract include the answer to the question posed? Does the abstract include the authors’ conclusions? Does the abstract stand on its own in te...

Distractive driving or sharks... you be the judge.

Now You C It. Now You Don't!

Currently, much of the software that we would like to run fast on multi-core processors is written in C — a language in which expressing concurrency is difficult and error prone. Unfortunately, moving such programs to a new language is very difficult, since the programmers only know C, the tools only know C, and developers are unkeen to trust their projects to a language that might not be suppo...

Now you feel it, now you don't.

Recent studies have reported that in normal healthy individuals, the perception of illusory sensations in one modality can be induced by the presentation of a stimulus in another modality. These illusory sensations may arise from the activation of a tactile representation in memory induced by the non-target stimulus, in a process mirroring that thought to be responsible for many forms of medica...

The weekend effect: now you see it, now you don’t

Those who yearn for a world in which policies are based on a systematic and dispassionate assessment of the evidence can find little encouragement in the ongoing debate about the safety of hospitals at weekends. Almost nothing is clear in this tangled tale. It began when the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, claimed on the BBC Today programme that there were 6000 avoidable deaths each year and a l...