Response | Models are not the answer to improved landfilling

Models are not the answer to improved landfilling.

Hillary Inyang’s article in the September 1, 2004, Environmental Science &Technology, “Modeling the Long-Term Performance of Waste Containment Systems: Better models will help predict what happens to containments in 50 or 1000 years” presents a discussion of some of the issues that need to be considered/evaluated in developing landfills for waste storage. However, her statement at the conclusio...

Diagnostic uncertainty: dichotomies are not the answer.

a leading figure in the development and evaluation of diagnostic research methods, argued that the binary ‘positive–negative’ framework used in test accuracy research is not representative of diagnostic decision making in clinical practice.1 In particular, he called for a move away from the dichotomisation of quantitative test scales (tests that are on a continuous or ordinal scale) and advocat...

Solving the Mystery of Dengue in Iran; Are We Close to an Answer?

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection which is endemic in Southeast Asia. Although it has not been distributed in Iran, locating near other countries where the Dengue has been revealed is a threat for Iran because different connection between countries may increase the rate of infection.

Dental treatment and prosthetic joints: antibiotics are not the answer!

UV or not UV: metals are the answer.

Advances in our understanding of the etiology of cutaneous melanoma over the past decade have implicated constitutive heredity alterations in a small percentage of cases (5-8%). Using the power of competitive genomic hybridization, melanomas located in intermittently sun exposed areas have been associated with BRAF abnormalities whereas those located in chronic sun-exposed areas have not shown ...