Why aren't effective teaching tools widely adopted?

Why Aren’t Sobriety Checkpoints Widely Adopted as an Enforcement Strategy in the United States?

Sobriety checkpoints have been used by police in the United States for at least the past two decades to enforce impaired driving laws. Research has indicated that sobriety checkpoints are effective in reducing drinking and driving and alcohol-related fatal crashes. Despite this evidence, many police agencies have been unenthusiastic about using checkpoints. Information was collected from all 50...

Why New Software Processes Are Not Adopted

Why do we often appear not to do what is best for us, or at least what someone else thinks is best? To what extent do the reasons have to do with what is being suggested vs. to how the implementation is planned and executed? Is there a way to accelerate the rate at which the implementation of process adoption can be achieved? These questions are addressed by reviewing the considerable literatur...

Why Software Process Innovations Are Not Adopted

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E W hat do these modern, buzzword software methods have in common: eXtreme Programming, Crystal, lean programming, scrum, feature-driven development, adaptive software development, “good enough” software, personal software process/team software process, Rational Unified Process, rapid development, code complete, ...? They all offer something i...

Why isn't endogenous ouabain more widely accepted?

During the past few years, several distinguished senior colleagues who visited our department and inquired about the status of endogenous ouabain (EO) have asked, “How come I didn’t know about these [published] data?” And, “Why isn’t endogenous ouabain more widely accepted?” I usually simply shrug and express disappointment that EO is not yet a “mainstream hormone,” even though the seminal repo...

Why internationally adopted children should be screened for tuberculosis.