Meta-analysis is an increasingly important aspect of drug development as companies look to benchmark their own compounds with the competition. There is scope to carry out a wide range of analyses addressing key research questions from preclinical through to postregistration. This set of tutorials will take the reader through key model-based meta-analysis (MBMA) methods with this first installme...

In this second installment of SETI in 20xx, we very briefly and subjectively review developments 2021. Our primary focus is 98 papers books published or made public 2021, which sort into six broad categories: results from actual searches, new search methods instrumentation, target frequency selection, the development technosignatures, theory ETIs, social aspects SETI.

A summarized fragment of an interview conducted on April 22, 2016, as installment the cycle “Conversations with Mentors,” sponsored by Centre for Film Documentation Polish Scholarship, Pedagogical University Kraków and Society Ancient Studies. Available online at Oral History Archive Studies (SHS). The summary covers only Prof. Wipszycka’s biography until change regime.

Completion of the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey in the southern celestial hemisphere has turned up 170 new stars with proper motion 0.45′′yr−1 < μ < 2.0′′yr−1. This fourth and final installment completes the all-sky, data-mining of the Digitized Sky Surveys for stars with large proper motions. The areas investigated in this final installment comprise 11,600 square degrees in the declination r...

We continue to examine the spectra of polymers because they are important materials, and this exercise makes for an excellent infrared (IR) spectral interpretation review. In installment, we look at more hydrocarbon polymers, including polypropylene polystyrene. IR these materials in detail, see how spectroscopy can be used distinguish them from each other.

In the credit decision-making process, both an applicant’s creditworthiness and their affordability should be assessed. While credit scoring focuses on creditworthiness, affordability is often checked on the basis of current income and estimated current consumption as well as existing debts stated in a credit report. Contrary to that static approach, a theoretical framework for dynamic affordab...

INTRODUCTION The WestJEM Blog and Podcast Watch presents high quality open-access educational blogs and podcasts in emergency medicine (EM) based on the ongoing ALiEM Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) and AIR-Professional series. Both series critically appraise resources using an objective scoring rubric. This installment of the Blog and Podcast Watch highlights the topic of orthopedic eme...

As many as 53.5 million American workers have experienced workplace bullying, which can cost organizations an estimated $200 billion annually in lost productivity, increased sick d ays, increased med ical claims, legal costs, and staff turnover. Bullying can occur in any profession, but for many reasons it is most prevalent in healthcare. Bullying behavior in healthcare has been reported and do...