Turning back the harmful red tide

Turning the tide against tuberculosis.

Screening mammography: the turning of the tide?

that many of the legion of criticisms that have been placed at the door of the nbss simply do not hold up to scrutiny. But mud sticks, and so many observers who do not like the results of the nbss point again and again to the same " flaws. " One of Narod's most telling points is that the survival curves for the two arms of the Swedish trial continue to remain separate up to 29 years after the t...

Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors

The popularity and influence of reviews, make sites like Yelp ideal targets for malicious behaviors. We present Marco, a novel system that exploits the unique combination of social, spatial and temporal signals gleaned from Yelp, to detect venues whose ratings are impacted by fraudulent reviews. Marco increases the cost and complexity of attacks, by imposing a tradeoff on fraudsters, between th...

Effects of harmful algal blooms on competitors: Allelopathic mechanisms of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis

Because competitive interactions may have led to adaptations enabling bloom-forming phytoplankton to dominate pelagic communities, we explored the allelopathic effects of one red tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, on competing phytoplankton species. Exposure to waterborne compounds from natural K. brevis blooms resulted in growth inhibition or death for four of five co-occurring species teste...

Turning the Tide for Psychedelic Medicines

Psychedelic Medicine provides a broad overview of this re-emerging field in 30 chapters authored primarily by leading physicians, medical researchers, and psychologists who have continued to explore the potentials of these substances. Complemented by the legal and social views of anthropologists and lawyers, these substances and their healing potentials are re-evaluated in light of the recent d...