Investigator Mark Natter alerts us to an ongoing study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Sublingual Cockroach Safety Study (SCSS) This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00434421 Purpose: Immunotherapy may help reduce symptoms of allergy and asthma. Problems concerning compliance and adverse events with subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy […]
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Heavy Meals / Heavy Metals: Typo?
This study’s title appears to have a typo. Does it? “Heavy meals in urban roadside soils, part 1: effect of particle size fractions on heavy metals partitioning,” Xue-Song Wang, Yong Qin and Yong-Kang Chen, Environmental Geology, vol. 50, 2006, pp. 1061–1066. The authors are at Huaihai Institute of Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, […]
Secure: Withdrawn Because Insecure
The authors of a study describing “Unconditionally Secure Quantum Coin Tossing” withdrew the study because, they say, the scheme is insecure. Details: Unconditionally Secure Quantum Coin Tossing via Entanglement Swapping arXiv:quant-ph/0012139, 2001 Authors: Yong-Sheng Zhang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo (University of Science and Technology of China) Comments: Withdraw. The scheme presented is insecure ABSTRACT: An […]
Sexy, in a word (in a title)
Investigator Sarah Keedy asks: This article has the term “Sexy” in the title which is utterly not borne out whatsoever in the text (except maybe to people who really care about this topic, of whom I am not one), nor is the term FOUND anywhere else in the text, suggesting it is not even a […]