According to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, “comparative effectiveness research is designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options” (1). The data derived from clinical registries play an important role in assessing the effectiveness and appropriateness of various treatments, and their use i...

In this paper, I discuss the interpretation of method deconstruction in David J. Gunkel’s Deconstruction (MIT Press 2021). focus on relationship between and truth. hold that concept truth is indispensable for since introduces correctness conditions deconstructive method. However, claim truth, being essential primitive deconstruction, fundamentally inaccessible analyzed by latter.
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School-based drug prevention is a central component of drug control strategies. This paper assesses quantitatively its contributions in the United States from a social policy perspective. The social benefits per participant stemming from reduced drug use ( approximately $840 from tobacco, alcohol, cocaine and marijuana) appear to exceed the economic costs of running the programs ( approximately...

European Journal of Information Systems (2009) 18, 189–191. doi:10.1057/ejis.2009.21 What is published in our journals? Complaints I have just come back from a conference where there was a ‘Meet the Editors’ Panel’. At the end of the meeting there was a discussion session, which showed some widespread lack of understanding about the process of getting an author’s paper published. This is in spi...

Digital in-line holography is a microscopy technique which got an increasing attention over the last few years in the fields of microbiology, medicine and physics, as it provides an efficient way of measuring 3D microscopic data over time. In this paper, we present a complete system for the automatic analysis of digital in-line holographic data; we detect the 3D positions of the microorganisms,...