Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
29 Feb 2008
How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho have arrived at a fresh answer with broad applications in science, technology and business.
In new work published in the Proceedings [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
Researcher Finds Not Everyone Can Successfully Learn Through Online Courses, Despite Their Popularity
01 Mar 2008
Since the 1990s, online courses have provided an opportunity for busy adults to continue their education by completing courses in the comfort of their own homes. However, this may not be the best solution for everyone. A researcher at the University [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
When The Rules Of The Game Are Broken: Research Studies Sports Injuries Related To Illegal Activity
01 Mar 2008
A study published in the February issue of Injury Prevention estimates that more than 98,000 sports injuries in U.S. high schools in 2005-2007 were directly related to an action that was ruled illegal activity by a referee, official [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
29 Feb 2008
The authors of a Reflection and Reaction comment in the March issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases take a hard line on some health policy research posted on the Internet, especially regarding evidence based drug harm reduction. In particular, they focus on a website posted as the Institute on Global Drug Policy (IGDP) [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
New Study: How Cigarette Smoke Causes Cancer
29 Feb 2008
Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. This finding may help [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
JAMA Commentaries Discuss Role Of Costs In Overhauling U.S. Health System, Implementing Effective EHR Systems
28 Feb 2008
“The Cost-Coverage Trade Off: ‘It’s Health Care Costs, Stupid,’” Journal of the American Medical Association: In the JAMA commentary, Ezekiel Emanuel of NIH writes that efforts to overhaul the U.S. health care system should focus on costs rather than [...]
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