Can We Put an End to Commercial Sex?

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

Can we put event nominals to rest? (Semantics)

The basic syntactic frame of put is X put Y to Z, and a simple paraphrase is ‘X acts on Y such that Y becomes a participant in the event Z.’ I will call Y the pivot and Z the secondary predicate (SP). Possible SPs include motion, order, power, practice, print, use, work, sleep, death, judgement, rebuke, shame. These are just the possibilities for a bare noun SP. Full NPs include (a) vote, (a) c...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

How can we end paediatric AIDS?

Linking electronic medical records to large-scale simulation models: can we put rapid learning on turbo?

One method for rapid learning is to use data from electronic medical records (EMRs) to help build and validate large-scale, physiology-based simulation models. These models can than be used to help answer questions that cannot be addressed directly from the EMR data. Their potential uses include analyses of physiological pathways; simulation and design of clinical trials; and analyses of clinic...