Book Review: Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart, by Carolina Bank Muñoz

Take it to the Bank.

In this issue of the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, Beekman and colleagues report on discussions surrounding the establishment of European CF specimen biobanks for research use, which is complimented by a short communication by Garratt and the AREST CF research team [1,2]. These articles highlight the challenges and considerations of developing a multi-country CF biobank (the former), but also hig...

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COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 551 arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]02) equals 3; and the fractional concentration of oxygen in the inspired gas (F1o2) equals 0.40. From the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve, the arterial oxygen saturation equals 0.90. Since C(a-v)O, equals 3, the venous oxygen saturation (Sv02) equals 0.75 approximately. Using these figures, the QS/QT equals 0.502. T...

Book Review: On Intelligence

It naturally makes researchers bristle when a new guy comes along and makes grand pronouncements that everyone else has missed the big idea. Stephan Wolfram encountered some of that with his 1192 page tome, “A New Kind of Science” where he argued that cellular automata do much better at simulating complex phenomena than more sophisticated models. It helps things not a bit when the new guy struc...

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