I have previously suggested that we should replace the ambiguous term “too much medicine,” in sense of using too many medical interventions, including diagnostic and therapeutic ones, with healthcare.” The first item my list forms healthcare is tests (if used inappropriately), or, a word, overdetection, one two major causes overdiagnosis. Overdetection has been defined as identification abnorma...

The accumulation of cortisol in hair and claws, which grow slowly, makes it possible to retrospectively assess chronic stress levels. study involved 47 cats from a shelter for homeless animals. Hair the lumbosacral region dead part claws front paw were collected. average levels 0.85 ng/ml cats’ 4.56 claws. There was no significant relationship between To date, too little research has been done ...

A wheel or sphere rolling without slipping on the inside of a sphere in a uniform gravitational field can have stable circular orbits that lie wholly above the “equator”, while a particle sliding freely cannot.

PURPOSE This study examined data equivalency and loss to follow-up rates from Internet and interactive voice response (IVR) system surveys in a prospective-cohort study. METHODS 475 limited-service restaurant workers participating in the 12-week study were given a choice to report their weekly slipping experience by either IVR or Internet. Demographic differences, loss to follow-up, self-repo...

Intelligent tutoring systems that utilize Bayesian Knowledge Tracing have achieved the ability to accurately predict student performance not only within the intelligent tutoring system, but on paper post-tests outside of the system. Recent work has suggested that contextual estimation of student guessing and slipping leads to better prediction within the tutoring software (Baker, Corbett, & Ale...

Falling accidents caused by slipping represent a high proportion of all accidents and are cost intensive in industry as well as in the private sphere. To prevent such accidents, the slip resistance of flooring must be evaluated. Therefore, measurement methods are necessary. These methods must provide results that comply with an individual's perception of when a floor is slippery. This article d...

We discuss the flow past a flat heterogeneous solid surface decorated by slipping stripes. The spatially varying slip length, b(y), is assumed to be small compared to the scale of the heterogeneities, L, but finite. For such weakly slipping surfaces, earlier analyses have predicted that the effective slip length is simply given by the surface-averaged slip length, which implies that the effecti...