Family Law: Order out of Chaos

Detrusor contractility--order out of chaos.

OBJECTIVE This paper comprises a critical assessment of the many competing ways of assessing detrusor contractility in the urodynamic clinic. It is based on measurements made in a group of elderly women, and the conclusions apply, strictly speaking, only to that population. Detrusor contractility has two aspects, which appear to be independent of each other: the strength of the detrusor contrac...

Democracy: Order out of Chaos Understanding Power-Law in Indonesian Elections

We construct a majority cellular automata based model to explain the power-law signatures in Indonesian general election results. The understanding of second-order phase transitions between two different conditions inspires the model. The democracy is assumed as critical point between the two extreme socio-political situations of totalitarian and anarchistic social system – where democracy can ...

Psychological distress and medication adherence: creating order out of chaos?

Butterfly and renal cell cancer: out of chaos comes order.

TO THE EDITOR: You are no doubt familiar with the butterfly effect paradigm to describe the chaos theory. The proverbial butterfly flaps its wings on a remote Caribbean island and causes a hurricane in Europe a few weeks later. A small change in one place can cause widely diverging outcomes in another. In patients with cancer the butterfly effect can have devastating effects. Over our many year...

Power Quality Measurements: Bringing Order out of Chaos

The quality of the power supplied t o sensitive electronic equipment is a n important issue. Quantifytng this quality, however, is difficult under the present s ta te o f nonexistent or uncoordinated standards concerning two related questions: ( I ) what levels of power quali ty a r c r equ i red for what types of loads, and (2) what measurement techniques a r e required to determine reliably t...