Pomerantz’s blessing

Menstruation: curse or blessing?

Cleansing or curse? Menstruation in our lifetime has been commonly called ‘The Curse’. Our sisters in the 16th century, however, welcomed this cleansing as a fertility sign from God, through the moon that determined the tides of all that flowed on the earth. These tides included the four humorous fluids that made up each of us and determined, by balance, the health of an individual. Ancient med...

Guidelines: Blessing or evidence?

There are several S3-guidelines that focus on the treatment of patients after cardiac surgery published by the German Medical Association (AWMF). These high quality guidelines cover the areas of haemodynamic monitoring and postoperative cardiovascular therapy (S3), the management of analgesia, sedation and delirium in intensive care and prevention (S3), diagnoses and therapy of sepsis (S2k). Al...

On the blessing of abstraction.

The "blessing of abstraction" refers to the observation that acquiring abstract knowledge sometimes proceeds more quickly than acquiring more specific knowledge. This observation can be formalized and reproduced by hierarchical Bayesian models. The key notion is that more abstract layers of the hierarchy have a larger "effective" sample size, because they combine information across multiple spec...

IT as Curse and Blessing

Ochekwu, Edache Bernard; Madagwa, Blessing

The pollution of crude oil contaminated water has been a major problem in oil producing communities and the use of plant to clean such water bodies has been on investigation. In order to identify plants that can enhance the remediation of crude oil contaminated water, the effect of the growth of Eichhornia crassipes on the physico chemistry and crude oil content of water contaminated with diffe...