Chicken or egg—Weismann revisited

Chicken or egg: physical activity in COPD revisited.

The Chicken or the Egg

Informal care is a vital pillar of the British welfare state. A well-known fact in the small economic literature on informal care is the apparent negative relation between care responsibilities and labour market participation. Yet, caring and labour market participation may be endogenous. Using an instrumental variable approach and panel data techniques and employing data from the British House...

Insulin resistance and hypertension: the chicken-egg question revisited.

Insulin resistance refers to the reduction in insulinmediated glucose uptake in insulin-sensitive tissues, specifically in skeletal muscle. As a compensatory response, hyperinsulinemia ensues to maintain normal blood glucose levels. In epidemiological studies, fasting insulin level is commonly used as a surrogate marker of insulin resistance. In normoglycemic subjects, fasting insulin correlate...

Hypodermoclysis or subcutaneous infusion revisited.

AIM OF STUDY To review the use of hypodermoclysis in a local Hospice. METHOD A review of all hypodermoclysis carried out over a six-month period was conducted. Special attention was paid to the reason for starting and stopping the drip, duration of the drip, complications, the type and amount of solution infused. RESULTS Fifty-one (19%) out of 266 patients received hypodermoclysis during th...

QUICKSELECT Revisited

We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.