Health issues are increasingly becoming politicized, but little is known about how politicization takes shape in the news and its effect on the public. We analyze the evolution of politicization in news coverage of two health controversies: the uproar over the 2009 mammography screening guidelines and the 2006–2007 debate over mandating the HPV vaccine as a requirement for middle school–aged gi...

We followed with interest the discussion [1, 2] fueled by the study of Stapel et al. [3] who reported fairly accurate assessment of energy expenditure (EE) in critically ill patients based on ventilator-derived carbon dioxide production (VCO2). The proposed technique is elegant and valid but has inherent limitations. It is applicable in patients who are in one way or another ventilator-dependen...

Dr. Edward Foulks and his colleagues had been asked in 1979 to be a subcontractor on a study commissioned by The City of Barrow Department of Public Safety relating to their concern about traumatic deaths associated with alcohol abuse in their community. The goal as outlined by the Department was "to receive research results which might enable (the Department) to establish more effective progra...

In his essay “In Good Faith” (1990), Salman Rushdie discusses the reactions his novel, The Satanic Verses (1988; “SV”) has evoked around the world. According to Rushdie, his novel has been treated as “a work of bad history, as an anti-religious pamphlet, as the product of an international capitalistJewish conspiracy, as an act of murder,” everything but literature, a work of fiction. Rushdie is...

We study the intraday behaviour of the statistical moments of the trading volume of the blue chip equities that composed the Dow Jones Industrial Average index between 2003 and 2014. By splitting that time interval into semesters, we provide a quantitative account of the nonstationary nature of the intraday statistical properties as well. Explicitly, we prove the well-known ∪-shape exhibited by...

A recent Op Ed in the New York Times (February 23, 2013, David Engleman) aptly summarized the complexity of the human brain. «The Brain is composed of ~86 billion electrically active neurons, each connected to many thousands of neighbors. Each neuron relays information in the form of miniature voltage spikes, which are then converted into chemical signals that bridge the gap to other neurons. M...

Abstrak— Pada pertengahan tahun 2022, Indonesia dibuat gempar oleh kehadiran hacker dengan nama Bjorka, pasalnya Bjorka berhasil meretas situs Kementrian Komunikasi dan Informatika (KEMKOMINFO). tidak melakukan aksinya satu atau dua kali, namun sering kali membuat seluruh masyarakat Indoneisa. Bagaimana tidak, selain Informatika, juga mencuri dokumen rahasia milik Badan Intelejen Negara (BIN). ...

Turbidity and water colour are two easily measurable properties used to monitor pollution. Here, we highlight the utility of a low-cost device—3D printed, hand-held Mini Secchi disk (3DMSD) with Forel-Ule (FU) scale sticker on its outer casing—in combination mobile phone application (‘TurbAqua’) that was provided laymen for assessing quality shallow lake region after demolition four high-rise b...

This statement might seem extreme in light of recent events that have reopened a seemingly long-settled debate over whether such research ought even be permitted, let alone funded by the government. Morality and conscience have been cited to justify defunding, and even criminalizing, the research, just as morality and conscience have been cited to justify not only health care professionals’ ref...