An Excursion Into Utilitarian Analysis

An excursion into geometric analysis

An excursion into pharmacology: curare in medicine.

INTRODUCTION IN our present age of specialization, it is not easy to move from one branch of medical study to another in pursuit of a single piece of research, a single enquiry. Fifty years ago, Sir Thomas Lewis wrote that on occasion it may be desirable for the clinical scientist to become his own pharmacologist. And fifty years ago, the present writer, a clinician, made an excursion into phar...

An Excursion Into The Statistical Properties of Hedge Fund Returns

This paper provides an overview of the most important statistical properties of individual hedge fund returns. We find that the net-of-fees monthly returns of the average individual hedge fund exhibit significant skewness, excess kurtosis, as well as positive first-order serial correlation. The correlations between hedge funds in the same strategy group are of a similar order of magnitude as th...

An excursion into self-monitoring of blood glucose in children.

Ten adolescent diabetic children monitored blood glucose (BG) concentrations during a British Diabetic Association holiday camp in Denmark. The range of results was wide but revealed a mean pre-breakfast (fasting) BG of 9-8 mmol/l and a mean BG before the main evening meal of 13-2 mmol/l. Before the evening meal eight of ten children had BG concentrations in excess of 13mmol/l. There wasa signi...

“An Excursion into Set Theory using a Constructivist Approach”

Constructive logic is an alternative to the theory of classical logic that draws a direct relation between an assertion and its existence. Some of the few important differences between a classical proof and a constructionist proof include the avoidance of proof by contradiction and the rejection of the law of the excluded middle. However, given the possibility that constructive logic is an alte...