Outcomes help map out evidence in an uncertain terrain, but they are relative

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...

Vehicle Stabilization in Uncertain Terrain

Conventional nonholonomic motion planning and control theories do not incorporate the effects of uncertain terrain. This paper discusses some basic issues of motion planning and control for kinematic vehicles on uncertain terrain. We extend proofs of local stabilizability for time varying feedback laws to vehicles on uncertain terrain by showing that terrain can be modeled as parametric uncerta...

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Autistics speak but are they heard ?

In this article, we argue that the exclusion of autistic people from meaningful involvement in research is both ethically and epistemologically problematic, and constitutes a significant barrier to research impact. By the term ‘meaningful’, we refer to the inclusion of different autistic voices not merely as sources of empirical material, but as active participants in the production of knowledg...

Matrix metalloproteinases: are they antiatherogenic but proaneurysmal?

The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes (25 identified to date) that have in common the ability to degrade many molecules of the extracellular matrix. MMP activity can be inhibited by the endogenous tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs 1 through 4), and the net proteolytic activity within a tissue is a function of the balance of MMPs/TIMPs.1 Numerous studies have ...