Automobile-finance companies pushed hard to get in on the government’s $700 billion financial rescue plan. Now, with the industry’s troubles expected to deepen, they are exploring further moves, including help from the Federal Reserve.
The plan outlined by the U.S. central bank Tuesday to effectively lend to companies to fund day-to-day operations will likely not include [...]

Large head metal-on-metal cementless total hip arthroplasty versus 28mm metal-on-polyethylene cementless total hip arthroplasty: design of a randomized controlled trial
Background:
Osteoarthritis of the hip is successfully treated by total hip arthroplasty with metal-on-polyethylene articulation. Polyethylene wear debris can however lead to osteolysis, aseptic loosening and failure of the implant. Large head metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty may [...]

Background:
Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disorder in the Caucasian population. Scoring systems for assessment of Cystic fibrosis disease severity have been used for almost 50 years, without being adapted to the milder phenotype of the disease in the 21st century. The aim of this current project is to develop a new scoring [...]

Background:
The objective was to explore the relationship between left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) assessed during hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (MI) and later health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Methods:
We used multivariable linear regression to assess the relationship between LVEF and HRQoL in 256 MI patients who responded to the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ), the EQ-5D [...]

Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind [...]

In its second matchup this summer with future Olympic opponent Angola, China’s men’s national team won 83-74, behind 21 points from Yao Ming) and a strong performance from point guard Liu Wei, pictured above). The teams are playing in the the FIBA Diamond Ball basketball tournament in Nanjing.
Yao played 29 minutes, the most he has [...]

In its second matchup this summer with future Olympic opponent Angola, China’s men’s national team won 83-74, behind 21 points from Yao Ming???) and a strong performance from point guard Liu Wei???, pictured above). The teams are playing in the the FIBA Diamond Ball basketball tournament in Nanjing.
Yao played 29 minutes, the most he has [...]

Here’s a follow-up to the post I wrote on comparing your game and scoring to the PGA Tour players. We talked about how the best in the world only hit 70% of the fairways and 65% of the greens, but they are excellent in sand saves and putting. Here’s some more condensed stats to chew [...]

This item also appears in the April, 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
The internet is widely considered the most measurable of advertising media, but those easily tracked click-throughs and e-commerce sales don’t tell the whole story. Far from it. Internet advertising stimulates off-line sales, too — in most cases, our firm finds that online campaigns [...]