Are the things really burnt?

Stroke: the way things really are.

BACKGROUND To comply with governmental requirements regarding the validity of therapeutic modalities and for medico-legal purposes, it is important to distinguish between what has been scientifically proven and what is anecdotal in the prevention and management of stroke. SUMMARY OF REVIEW This review summarizes the evidence for many of the modalities used to prevent stroke in high-risk patie...

The changing face of HIV care: common things really are common.

The management of HIV infection has advanced dramatically since its discovery. The HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) highlighted the statistically significant decrease in HIV-related morbidity and mortality, which was attributed to improved prophylaxis against opportunistic infections and the introduction of a potent combination of antiretroviral therapies (highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART...

Bilattices Are Nice Things

One approach to the paradoxes of self-referential languages is to allow some sentences to lack a truth value (or to have more than one). Then assigning truth values where possible becomes a fixpoint construction and, following Kripke, this is usually carried out over a partially ordered family of three-valued truth-value assignments. Some years ago Matt Ginsberg introduced the notion of bilatti...

Roles Are Really Great!

We present a new role system for specifying changing referencing relationships of heap objects. The role of an object depends, in large part, on its aliasing relationships with other objects, with the role of each object changing as its aliasing relationships change. Roles therefore capture important object and data structure properties and provide useful information about how the actions of th...

Are Methods Really Useful?