In this brief essay we present our results for the core characteristics of the citations and citational dynamics for one of the better known “race-corrected” medical algorithms, eGFR (Levey et al. 1999, 2009), and add a very brief note on one other, Spirometry (via the overview in ...
understand water conservation behaviors, and identify the factors that influence water consumption. However, in developing nations, little research has been done to provide a quantitative picture of how water is consumed and transformed in urban households, as well as the...
understand water conservation behaviors, and identify the factors that influence water consumption. However, in developing nations, little research has been done to provide a quantitative picture of how water is consumed and transformed in urban households, as well as the...
It would make a prisoner “lose the power to do evil and almost the thought of wishing it” (Bentham 2002, p. 14).Footnote 9 The relevance of this “simple architectural idea” (p. 11) is not restricted to the prison. Bentham claims that his idea is a great invention that can be...
The essay is seeking an answer to the perplexity of the notion of political responsibility. Since the idea of political responsibility is a modern one, one may wonder whether political responsibility has a meaning of its own compared to the ideas of constitutional impeachment and p...
The idea that contact tracing can be done with an app, and not human health professionals, is just plain dumb. EDITED TO ADD: This Brookings essay makes much the same point. EDITED TO ADD: This post has been translated into Spanish. Tags: base rate, Bluetooth, COVID-19, false negatives...
I recommend reading his essay in full. Also worth reading arethis EFF essay, andthis ACLU white paper. To me, the real problems aren’t around privacy and security. The efficacy of any app-based contact tracing is still unproven. A “contact” from the point of view of an app isn’t...
term “ecopsychology”in 1 992 and called his The Voice of the Earth “an essay in ecopsychology”(Roszak 1 992, 1 4).He believes that the environmental movement is in need of “a new psychological sensitivity”(Roszak 1992,39).Humans can learn how to motivate themselves to change their...
Nanotechnology research has lately been of intense interest because of its perceived potential for many diverse fields of science. Nanotechnology's tools have found application in diverse fields, from biology to device physics. By the 1990s, there was a