Objectives: To produce an easily understood and accessible tool for use by researchers in diagnostic studies. Diagnostic studies should have sample size calculations performed, but in practice, they ...

In statistics the term “population” has a slightly different meaning from the one given to it in ordinary speech. It need not refer only to people or to animate creatures – the population of Britain, ...

Objective To review the literature on educational interventions to improve prescribing and identify educational methods that improve prescribing competency in both medical and non-medical prescribers.

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders ...

Weighing 10 pounds, the PMCDS is a microscope and a spectrometer that can read the presence of amounts of substances smaller ...

To help with visualizing a standard pour of wine, five ounces is a little more than a 1/2 cup of liquid. About 5 glasses of wine in a standard bottle of wine. That's using a standard pour of 5 ounces.

Only rigorous mathematical tools to quantify the shape of cells can guarantee reliable results in coarse-grained descriptions of tissue dynamics.

A good budget helps you reach your spending and savings goals. Work out your proposed household budget by inputting your sources of income and projected expenses into Kiplinger's worksheet below. You ...

Benign moles can be pink, red, flat, or raised, and they have an even color and smooth borders. Atypical moles are larger, have uneven colors, and may have irregular shapes, which can be signs of ...