A man who thinks otherwise

Who thinks who knows who? Socio-Cognitive Analysis of an Email Network

Interpersonal interaction plays an important role in organizational dynamics, and understanding these interaction networks is key for any organization, since they can be tapped to facilitate various organizational processes. The principal roadblock to studying organizational networks, however, has been the difficulty in collecting data about them. The approach of conducting surveys/interviews i...

A man who borrowed cars.

robbery when his wife came to the neurology department at our hospital, in May, 1997, to ask for advice. At the age of 33, her husband had had a subarachnoid haemorrhage due to a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery, and had undergone surgery a few days later. Up to then, he had no medical or psychiatric history, and had never been in trouble. He was married, had a daughter, a...

Patchy hair loss in an otherwise healthy man.

What diagnoses should be considered? The most important diagnosis to consider is alopecia areata. This is an immune-mediated form of hair loss that most commonly affects the scalp, but it can affect any hair-bearing site. It can occur in any ethnic group, both sexes and at any age, with an estimated lifetime risk of 1.7% in the general population. Other diagnoses to consider include tinea capit...

Who Is This Man?

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief – but Who Is Who in the Capitalist Economy

The thesis of this paper is that a free-market capitalist economy is biased against supplying basic needs of poor consumers and also biased against creating inventing and using green technology. We begin by identifying the patterns of perverse logic in the system of market supply and in the process of technological advance under capitalism. The first pivotal problem is that economic decision ma...