Dental Benefits: “Because Medicaid Has, How Do You Call It? A Limit”

Anaphylaxis: how do you live with it?

This article reports on a study of the needs of families coping with life-threatening allergies in a child. Due to the scarcity of publications on the psychosocial dimensions of anaphylaxis, the authors draw on selected literature on family coping with chronic illness, asthma, and allergy to provide a conceptual context for the research and discussion of findings. Using qualitative methodology,...

Or " Call Me Ishmael " – How Do You Translate Emoji?

We report on an exploratory analysis of Emoji Dick, a project that leverages crowdsourcing to translate Melville’s Moby Dick into emoji. This distinctive use of emoji removes textual context, and leads to a varying translation quality. In this paper, we use statistical word alignment and part-of-speech tagging to explore how people use emoji. Despite these simple methods, we observed difference...

The vitamin D questions: how much do you need and how should you get it?

UV radiation is a well-documented human carcinogen, indisputably linked to the current continued increased rate of skin cancer. UV radiation is also responsible for cutaneous synthesis of vitamin (vit) D3, a substance that is then sequentially hydroxylated in the liver and kidney to yield 1,25(OH)2 vit D, a hormone critical for calcium homeostasis and skeletal maintenance. Because the UV action...

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

How do you feel while driving your car? Depends on how you think about it

Hedonic expectations and global memories converge, but both are poorly related to actual hedonic experience. We find that the economic value of a car predicts the reported hedonic experience of driving under prospective (How would it feel?) and global retrospective (How does it usually feel?) conditions, but not under episodic conditions (How did it feel last time?), unless the car was the foca...