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Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers - Slashdot. Just enter a PubMed ID / DOI. This piracy website is

Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers - Slashdot. Just enter a PubMed ID / DOI. This piracy website is trying to get around the paywalls in science. I'm all for open science this isn't the right way to go about it.
Source: slashdot.org

Agreement of treatment effects for mortality from routinely collected data and subsequent randomized trials: meta-epidemiological

Agreement of treatment effects for mortality from routinely collected data and subsequent randomized trials: meta-epidemiological survey Lars G Hemkens. Despina G Contopoulos-Ioannidis. John P A Ioannidis. BMJ.
Source: bmj.com

Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator: Thomson Reuters' approach of indexing by journal section and revising

Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator: Thomson Reuters' approach of indexing by journal section and revising by demand leads to great inconsistencies across journals and inflates the Impact Factors of elite journals. The solution: remov...
Source: sspnet.org

Just finished reading Enabling Collaboration - a book on "achieving success through strategic alliances and partnerships"

Just finished reading Enabling Collaboration - a book on "achieving success through strategic alliances and partnerships" by Martin Echavarria (@coherence360). Getting things done invariably involves working with others and when those others are themselves complex organisations it requires some thought....
Source: enablingcollaboration.com

What are the Costs and Benefits of Providing Comprehensive Seven‐day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions? Meacock,

What are the Costs and Benefits of Providing Comprehensive Seven‐day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions? Meacock, Rachel. Doran, Tim. Sutton, Matt. Health Economics. "There is as yet no clear evidence that 7-day services will reduce weekend deaths or can be achieved without increasing weekday...
Source: wiley.com

Driverless Dutch Bus Takes Passengers on Public Test: A robot shuttle bus carrying six passengers and no driver conducted

Driverless Dutch Bus Takes Passengers on Public Test: A robot shuttle bus carrying six passengers and no driver conducted its first trial run
Source: ieee.org

Healthcare on demand to see increased funding in coming years says an industry report by Accenture. Over $1billion by 2017. In

Healthcare on demand to see increased funding in coming years says an industry report by Accenture. Over $1billion by 2017. In this burgeoning on-demand economy, market entrants have developed solutions that address activities previously perceived as dull or demanding. For instance, Wype brings car-washing...
Source: accenture.com

ClinicFinder App for displaced people finding healthcare in Europe. Doctors of the World have released an App for those

ClinicFinder App for displaced people finding healthcare in Europe. Doctors of the World have released an App for those with the most need, the least information, and who find themselves in Europe. It is aimed at refugees and migrants and helps them find free primary healthcare and emergency services. There...
Source: clinicfinder.org

Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go - Slashdot

Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice. Arturo

Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice. Arturo J Vegas. Omid Veiseh. Mads Gürtler. Jeffrey R Millman. Felicia W Pagliuca. Andrew R Bader. Joshua C Doloff. Jie Li. Michael Chen. Karsten Olejnik. Hok Hei Tam. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala....
Source: nature.com

Printed Sensors Evaluated for Glucose Measurement in Exhaled Breath. Very interesting approach to measuring glucose using

Printed Sensors Evaluated for Glucose Measurement in Exhaled Breath. Very interesting approach to measuring glucose using nanotechnology printing. The key to all these alternate sites (and methods) is how rapidly they track true blood glucose. Fingerprick capillary blood is just so good at that.
Source: medgadget.com

2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record : Image of the Day: Long-term climate change got a boost from the developing El Niño

2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record : Image of the Day: Long-term climate change got a boost from the developing El Niño and obliterated previous records.
Source: nasa.gov

Data analysis reveals that US cities are segregating the wealthy: Restrictive land use regulations in cities are associated

Data analysis reveals that US cities are segregating the wealthy: Restrictive land use regulations in cities are associated with income segregation.
Source: arstechnica.com

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective: BMC Medical Education is part of the BMC series which publishes

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective: BMC Medical Education is part of the BMC series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We offer an efficient, fair and friendly peer review service,...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
Source: amazon.co.uk

The top five causes of death worldwide - infographic: Five conditions accounted for almost 40% of all deaths worldwide in

The top five causes of death worldwide - infographic: Five conditions accounted for almost 40% of all deaths worldwide in 2012. The countries are most affected by these diseases and how trends are changing over time
Source: theguardian.com

Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago - Slashdot

Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that

Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys can be cracked with specialized hardware, illustrating how difficult it is to secure hardware in someone else's possession.
Source: extremetech.com

Ofsted calls The Cornwall College Group a ‘catalyst’ for raising skills levels: STAFF and students across The Cornwall

Ofsted calls The Cornwall College Group a ‘catalyst’ for raising skills levels: STAFF and students across The Cornwall College Group are celebrating after the group was rated good in all categories by Ofsted. The report praises the expertise of teachers on all the campuses, the...
Source: westbriton.co.uk

Exercise-based rehabilitation for coronary heart disease | Cochrane

Exercise-based rehabilitation for coronary heart disease | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org