Edward Barry Adams

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...

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Ontology Barry Smith

Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. 'Ontology' is often used by philosophers as a synonym of 'metaphysics' (a label meaning literally: 'what comes after the Physics'), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called 'first p...

Adams, H

Experiments were performed to determine the effect of community composition on system function (bacterial production) in arctic Alaska. In this system bacterial production is controlled by: community, temperature, nutrients, and carbon source. Lake inlet and outlet communities in these experiments were different in composition, based on PCR-DGGE fingerprinting of 16S rDNA. For both communities,...

Algebraic Numbers By Barry Mazur

The roots of our subject go back to ancient Greece while its branches touch almost all aspects of contemporary mathematics. In 1801 the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss was first published, a “founding treatise,” if ever there was one, for the modern attitude towards number theory. Many of the still unachieved aims of current research can be seen, at least in embryonic form, ...