Ranking the university stars: are opinions sufficient?

Ranking the university stars: are opinions sufficient?

(USA), are the only global university performance tables to judge world-class universities across all of their core mis-sions—teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international status. The top university rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university l...

Are extinction opinions extinct?

Extinction models vary in the information they require, the simplest considering the rate of certain sightings only. More complicated methods include uncertain sightings and allow for variation in the reliability of uncertain sightings. Generally extinction models require expert opinion, either as a prior belief that a species is extinct, or to establish the quality of a sighting record, or bot...

Border Disease Control Checkpoints: Are They Sufficient for Disease Control? The Present Situation in Thailand

Where are the stars ?

The Two degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is used in conjunction with the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source Catalogue (XSC) to study the near-infrared light and stellar mass content of the local Universe. Mock galaxy catalogues, constructed from cosmological N-body simulations and semi-analytical galaxy formation models, are used to gauge the accuracy with which quant...

All opinions are not equal.

To the Editor: Gibbons et al1 detail the “noble” and Herculean task of developing American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cardiovascular guidelines. Recommendations are based on either experimental results or opinion, with the latter being considered of uniformly lower evidentiary importance. The contribution of opinion to the guidelines is substantial in that opinion supports...