Drug-Induced Compulsive Behaviors: Exceptions to the Rule

Exceptions That Prove the Rule

“The exception that proves the rule...” This often-misunderstood English language idiom, at least in its “loose rhetorical sense” [1], is highly applicable to the transmission from providers infected with blood-borne pathogens to their patients (ie, the rarity of these events helps characterize and define the miniscule risk for these transmissions in the practice of modern medicine). Decades of...

Exceptions to the Rule: Curing the Law's Failure to Protect Intersex Infants

PET/CT Imaging in Oncology: Exceptions That Prove the Rule

(18)F-FDG PET/CT is a diagnostic three-dimensional non-invasive device, routinely employed in neurology, cardiology, and oncology, and which contributes to patient care giving functional informations about glucose metabolism. In particular, staging, restaging, follow-up and response to treatment of tumors are the most common applications in oncologic field. Many neoplasms show increased glucose...

Ad-hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule

People’s work days are filled with exceptions to normal routine. These exceptions affect the security and privacy of their information access and sharing. In a recent ethnographic study of ten users in the Bay Area, we identify a number of key problems not well addressed by current data sharing technologies, and from them derive requirements for Ad-hoc Guesting, our term for minimal, readily av...

Genetics of sex determination: exceptions that prove the rule.

The dogma that male and female embryos develop in identical fashion until SRY initiates Sertoli cell differentiation in the hitherto bipotential gonad is in need of reevaluation in the light of data that do not fit into this scheme. One of the exceptions that proves the rule of sex determination is true hermaphroditism, the existence of individuals with both testicular and ovarian tissue. Furth...