Play it again…Dr Gibbon

Play it again, Sam--depression is recurring.

It doesn't pay to play the percentages.

314 P&T® • June 2005 • Vol. 30 No. 6 PROBLEM: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has received several reports in which patients were given undiluted intravenous (IV) epinephrine 1:1,000 (1 mg/ml) instead of the 1:10,000 (0.1 mg/ml) concentration. In each case, the more diluted epinephrine (1:10,000) was available for use, but the staff inadvertently prescribed or selected the 1:...

Sprock-it: A Physically Interactive Play System

Sprock-it” is a hand-sized robotic character that encourages full-body interaction and engaging mental play. Through social and physical interactions with the system and with each other, children influence the character’s mobile and responsive autonomous driving behavior. Enabling constructionist activities and participatory adaptive design the system employs RFID tags and readers, wireless Blu...

Generating Media Stories – Play it again, Sam

New types of knowledge spaces, such as the web, allow for yet unexplored forms of knowledge exploration and social relationships. Such an interactive, open and multimodal system sustains the activation of articulation expressions that form the basis of adaptive discourses. In this paper we look at the problem of how stories in such environments can be established. We are in particular intereste...

Cardiovascular Biology: Play It Again, Gata4

To function properly, the vertebrate heart must navigate challenging periods by utilizing appropriate stress-response pathways. A new study highlights a crucial role for the transcription factor Gata4 in mediating diverse stress responses in the zebrafish heart.