Remaking China’s Global Image with the Belt and Road Initiative: Is the Jury Out?

Splinting poststroke: the jury is still out.

Splinting Poststroke: the Jury Is Still Out To the Editor: In the article abstract by Lannin et al,1 the authors claim “the practice of routine splinting soon after stroke should be discontinued.” Their presented data does not show this. The stated aim was to determine the effect of splinting “on contracture in the wrist and long finger flexor muscles”1 without defining ‘contracture’. Participa...

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out

In a recently published report, Poole et al. utilized a crossover design to determine the effect of nonprescription antimicrobial exposure on the human microbiome (1). After an initial washout phase, participants were provided either products that contained TCS or products without TCS for use over a 4-month period, followed by a switch to the opposite exposure regimen for another 4 months. Typi...

Osteoporosis and ERT--the jury is still out.

Reply to “Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out”

Lauren Pischel,a Angela C. Poole,b,d Catherine Ley,a Gina Suh,a Julia K. Goodrich,b Thomas D. Haggerty,a Ruth E. Ley,b,d Julie Parsonnet,a,c Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USAa; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAb; Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Me...