Alien Registration- Dallaire, Julia (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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Sounder reporting of study results by systematic screening for erroneous interpretation of P values and statistical tests in cardiology

Abstract: “This has nothing to do with pediatric and congenital cardiology.” Such was the response of a colleague when I showed him an earlier draft of this text. I disagreed. If we can improve the way we report cardiology research findings, then this has a lot to do with cardiology. I admit that the question I ask here applies to most of biomedical research: how can we steer away from the widespread misconceptions and erroneous interpretations of statistical tests and P values that are commonly seen in the biomedical scientific literature?1e3 Our field is no exception: an informal survey of the research articles published in the first 2 issues of the CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (CJCPC), as well as in 2 recent issues of CJC (volume 38, issues 6 and 8), revealed that >40% contained statements that may have been based on a misinterpretation of what a statistical test result really conveys (see Supplemental Tables S1 and S2). Given that CJCPC is still in its early start, why not set an example and work to better guide authors, reviewers, and editors on how to report the results of statistical tests. My goal here is not to offer a detailed expos e on biostatistics, but rather to give the readers some context on the scope of the problem, as well as to propose practical solutions that may very well be easy to put into practice

The Responsibility to Protect

From the EPIIC Symposium, Sovereignty & Intervention, at Tufts University in February 2003: Focuses on the responsibility to protect humanity. Experiences during the Rwandan catastrophe; Resolvability of humanitarian catastrophes with security problems; Several ways on how to intervene in the problem

Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations : sensitivity to modeling and simulation parameters

Le présent travail vise à apporter certaines pistes de solution concernant certaines controverses sur l'estimation de la conductivité thermique des nanotubes de carbone par simulation de dynamique moléculaire à l'équilibre avec conditions aux limites périodiques et la formule de Green-Kubo. Entre autre, différents auteurs obtiennent des résultats pouvant parfois varier de plusieurs ordres de grandeur pour un même type de nanotube. H n'y a toutefois que très peu d'études jusqu'à ce jour tentant d'expliquer ces contradictions. Dans la première partie du projet, on détermine les paramètres numériques pouvant influencer la conductivité thermique calculée avec une méthode de dynamique moléculaire à l'équilibre. On effectue ensuite une analyse de sensibilité pour plusieurs de ces paramètres afin de déterminer de quelle manière ils influencent la conductivité thermique calculée (chapitres 3 et 4). Finalement, on présente une étude sur le phénomène de fréquence de coupure lors du calcul de la conductivité thermique (chapitre 5)