Featured Thoughts, News and Microarticles from the Scientific Community.
Safe Electronic Health Record Use Requires a Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Dean Sittig–Feb 2, 2010
1: Ability to report safety events related to use 2: Enhanced certification 3: Self-assessment of 8 aspects of the EHR safe use framework have been addressed 4: On-site, in-person accreditation of EHRs as implemented & used 5: National EHR-related adverse event investigation board that reviews incidents.(View details)The Threat of Shampoo to the Biosphere
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 30, 2010
This paper indicated that components of shampoo pose a dramatic danger and hazard to intimate ecosystem services that are a keystone for the security and stability of the biosphere. Foam from shampoo was found to be of much more environmental hazard than previously thought. (View details)Mamuka Khvedelidze–Jan 31, 2010
Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is based on exquisite selection of phenotypes caused by small genetic variations, which is the basis of quantitative trait contribution to phenotype and disease. Here, we propose a new non-Lamarckian theory for a role of epigenetics in evolution.(View details)Endotoxin and cancer: good remarks on TLRs
Mamuka Khvedelidze–Jan 30, 2010
The hypothesis that components of bacteria may retard cancer progression dates back to William B. Coley's therapeutic experiments ("bacterial vaccine") in the 1890s.(View details)Mamuka Khvedelidze–Jan 30, 2010
Over the past decade, immune therapy has become a standard treatment for a variety of cancers. Monoclonal antibodies, immune adjuvants, and vaccines against oncogenic viruses are now well-established cancer therapies. Immune modulation is a principal element of supportive care.(View details)
Genetic variation in the Ahsg: one mechanism determining insulin resistance
Anton-Scott Goustin–Jan 28, 2010
My "favorite gene" is on human chromosome 3q27. It encodes a moderate-sized phosphorylated glycoprotein (yes!) which is secreted at a high rate from hepatocytes, into the bloodstream. The gene is called AHSG (in H. sapiens), Ahsg (mouse), or sometime...(Read more)
Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar & Co.
Jöran Beel–Jan 13, 2010
Have you ever thought about how to get your scientific article into a top position in Google Scholar's result lists? In our article "Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)" we provide guidelines on how to optimize your research articles for Google Scholar.(View details)Commons, Users, Service Providers - Internet (Self-) Regulation and Copyright
Dennis Jlussi–Jan 25, 2010
On March 17-18, 2010, an international conference with the title Commons, Users, Service Providers - Internet (Self-) Regulation and Copyright will take place in Hannover. The conference is hosted by Prof Dr Axel Metzger (Leibniz Universität Hannover...(Read more)
Graeme Smith–Jan 20, 2010
Recent research has shown that facilitation follows attention in the Cerebral Cortex. In order to understand why this might be, it is important to recognize the fact that the 40 hertz signal noted in a recent article on anesthesia, and Facilitation m...(Read more)
And you thought we would all perish because of global warming
Sebastian Darr–Jan 21, 2010
Taking into consideration the rates of mutation at both the germline and somatic-cell levels and their likely effects, a substantial reduction in human fitness can be expected over the next few centuries in industrialized societies unless novel means of genetic intervention are developed.(View details)Paul O'Donohoe–Jan 12, 2010
The open access "movement" has existed for decades, but with the coming of the digital age in the 90's it truly bloomed as the distribution cost of electronic media dropped to essentially nothing. Some groups completely embraced the paradigm-shifting...(Read more)
Psychoneuroimmunology discussion group
Peter Todd–Jan 14, 2010
I have just completed my personal profile for membership of the proposed psychoneuroimmunology discussion group within ResearchGATE. This interdisciplinary science which emerged from the field of psychosomatic research, was founded by such pioneers a...(Read more)
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 13, 2010
Major functions of ecosystem are traditionally being described in a dogmatic, stagnant, and antiquated way. A paper was published with a new conceptual addition to key functions of aquatic ecosystem: the latter is seen as a kind of a grand autonomous bioreactor governed by a diverse genetic pool(View details)The future school – what can it be like?
Victor Gargay–Jan 12, 2010
The future school is a school for a pupil. The educational institution monopoly will give way to monopoly of self educating person. It's up to him/her to solve as to what and how to learn. Adults - wise and careful instructors - help the growing pers...(Read more)
Mouth-rinses can lead to Oral Cancer, but only with Sanguinarine - the paradox
John Loudon–Jan 5, 2010
There has been much talk of late on the possible risk of development of oral cancer from the use of mouth-rinses. Specifically, the role of alcohol in the actual mouth-rinse has been considered to be the culprit in determining the increased risk for...(Read more)
Stopping Pollution: Eutrophication and Algal Blooms
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 8, 2010
A new approach to prevent pollution, eutrophication, and algal blooms was identified and analyzed in this paper . The approach is based on efficient use of the natural mechanisms of self-regulation of ecosystem.(View details)Underwater Secrets of Global Change
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 6, 2010
What is the global change? Usually it is seen as something that is relevant to the atmosphere and weather. It is true that air is involved, but not only the air alone; what happens in water is less visible. This paper unveils this hidden side of ecosystems, and discusses both hopes and hazards.(View details)Vulnerability of Major Plankton Groups: Rotifers
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 5, 2010
Welfare of the biosphere depends on filter-feeders that contribute to making water clean. Important new facts on the new type of hazard of man-made damage to the beneficial function of rotifers, which are plankton filter-feeders, were discovered. (View details)A possible role for the anterior cingulate cortex in hypnosis
Graeme Smith–Jan 2, 2010
In my memory model, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is connected to many areas in the cerebral cortex, by a backbone network that seems to extend down both sides of the central fissure, as referenced in recent works on connectomics. It's role, se...(Read more)
Three New Key Hazards to the Functioning of the Biosphere
Sergei Ostroumov–Jan 2, 2010
A paper in which the author discovered man-made hazards to 3 aspects of functioning of the biosphere and ecosystems: (1) formation of water quality; (2) bio-geochemical flows of C, N, P and other constituents of biomass; (3) formation of deposits of organic matter as bottom sediments.(View details)
- nice work john loudon Sydney Australia
John Loudon, Jan 24, 2010