Successful and Effective Data Protection: a Myth or Achievable Task?

Seismic Data Forecasting: A Sequence Prediction or a Sequence Recognition Task

In this paper, we have tried to predict earthquake events in a cluster of seismic data on pacific ring of fire, using multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS). The model is employed as either a predictor for a sequence prediction task, or a binary classifier for a sequence recognition problem, which could alternatively help to predict an event. Here, we explain that sequence prediction/r...

Effective doctor-patient communication--a hit or a myth?

Pharmageddon--a myth or reality.

sides of same coin revolving around medicine. Either it was the era of Thalidomide disaster which precipitated horrific congenital anomalies in newborns when used by pregnant mothers for their morning sickness1 or the present concept about Statins that it may work for the prophylaxis of heart ailments in everyone over 40,2 the safety and effectiveness of medicine is a question. Although on one ...

Mechanistic Prediction of Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer–Achievable or a Hopeless Task?

Over the last half of the twentieth century, a number of purely empirical and mechanismbased correlations have been developed for pool nucleate boiling. Empirical correlations differ from each other substantially with respect to the functional dependence of heat flux on fluid and surface properties, including gravity. The mechanism-based correlations require knowledge of the number density of a...

Skin protection creams in medical settings: successful or evil?

BACKGROUND Chronic exposure to mild irritants including cleansing and antiseptic products used for hand hygiene generates insults to the skin. To avoid unpleasant reactions, skin protection creams are commonly employed, but some fail to afford protection against a variety of xenobiotics. In this study, two skin protection creams were assayed comparatively looking for a protective effect if any ...