Enemies doomed to associate

Is Man Doomed to Progress?

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of inter-temporal consumption, agents are more satisfied with an increasing time-profile of consumption: they seem t...

Is the MDI doomed to extinction?

I s the very successful brainchild of a 9-year-old asthmatic patientt doomed to extinction? In 1956,2 the chiorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled metered dose inhaler (MDI) was introduced to the world as a result of a suggestion from this young child. The growth in sales of M DIs, for the purpose of administering drugs directly to the upper and lower airways, has been impressive. Currently, the MDI ...

Webometrics: emergent or doomed?

webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-based phenomena (defined more precisely later) was born in 1997 (Almind and Ingwersen 1997) and was driven rapidly forward by a number of pioneering researchers and investigations (Aguillo 1998; Bar-Ilan 1999; Ingwersen 1998; Rodríguez and Gairín 1997; Rousseau 1997; Smith 1999) to establish itself as apparently the largest coherent field within librar...

Doomed tongue twisters.

To cite: Kim JY, Han SW. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-202781 DESCRIPTION Occurrence of hypoglossal nerve palsy (HNP) accompanied with other cranial nerve palsies is not an uncommon finding. However, isolated HNP is a rare finding and represents a diagnostic challenge. Awoman in her late 70 s was referred to the neurology department due to ...

Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?