Researchers fail to dig out enough avalanche data

Researchers fail to dig out enough avalanche data.

Pascal Haegeli and coauthors’ interpretation of their avalanche research findings is unjustified. The authors cannot show an association between survival times and cause of death because cause of death is not reported in the Swiss sample. An association to snow density can’t be shown because it was not measured. The data show that the victims in both cohorts differed in many aspects and much po...

To dig or not to dig.

Fail-safe transcription termination: Because one is never enough.

Termination of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription is a fundamental step of gene expression that involves the release of the nascent transcript and dissociation of RNAPII from the DNA template. As transcription termination is intimately linked to RNA 3' end processing, termination pathways have a key decisive influence on the fate of the transcribed RNA. Quite remarkably, when reaching the...

Quality research in healthcare: are researchers getting enough statistical support?

BACKGROUND Reviews of peer-reviewed health studies have highlighted problems with their methodological quality. As published health studies form the basis of many clinical decisions including evaluation and provisions of health services, this has scientific and ethical implications. The lack of involvement of methodologists (defined as statisticians or quantitative epidemiologists) has been sug...

The DIG Description Logic Interface: DIG/1.1

This document describes a simple API for a general description logic system.