Apple’s Iphone 6 – The ‘Tipping Point’ of the Mobile Payment
The launch of the Iphone 6 has allowed its users to use their phones as a device for mobile payments. The popularity of the item and Apple’s support from Visa, Mastercard, and American Express make it viable that mobile payment will catch on. Currently 22,000 vendors support the near field communication (NFC) process. The NFC […]
Positive Feedback Mechanism Serves as Information Cascade in Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System
Hypertension is a chronic cardiovascular condition in which arterial blood pressure is at an elevated state. This illness is exacerbated by a positive feedback mechanism in which an enzyme from the kidney receives information from the body and reacts accordingly, initiating the production of a hormone that facilitates a cascade of anatomical responses that affect […]
The MMR scare cascade
A British medical journal (the Lancet) published a paper in 1998, which raised the possibility of a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. The leader of the group behind the paper was a British surgeon named Andrew Wakefield. The paper’s findings were based on twelve children who had been admitted to a London hospital […]
How Bayes Rule Can Locate Missing Plane
Most people are familiar with the Malaysian plane carrying 239 that went missing on March 8th, 2014. It has been a hot news topic since, because no one has been able to locate the plane. Disasters like this are rare, yet have happened on occasion in the past. Several methods have been used to calculate […]
Trendy Medicines
Herding can be a very powerful factor in people’s decision making, and therefore a potentially dangerous one. One of the best examples of this possible danger is the rise of Prozac. Prozac was produced by Eli Lilly in the 1980s as an antidepressant. It was marketed as a wonder drug that corrected a “chemical imbalance” […]
Network Effects on Health
The article can be found here This article offers a new appropriate twist on the age old saying “you are what you eat.” Rather, you are now “what your friends eat” as networks have begun to pervade all aspects of human health. The “principles of sociogenomics,” or how socializing systems can integrate into genomics and […]
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