Gibbons: SSC should have been international

Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle’s Poetics?

[Reimbursement of generics in Croatia: should more have been done?].

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...

The Journey of International Fellows: Have you been to America?

At the recent meetings of ASNC in Washington DC and ICNC in Madrid Spain, I was reminded of the power of networking: a chance to share with colleagues, learn the latest approaches, new evidence and developments, reassurance that we all have similar challenges and also the camaraderie, much of which stems from our days as fellows. This year I was particularly struck and moved by seeing past fell...

We Have Always Been . . . Cyborgs

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...

Have Pentaquark States Been Seen?

The status of the search for pentaquark baryon states is reviewed in light of new results from the first two dedicated experiments from CLAS at Jefferson Lab and of new analyses from several labs on the Θ + (1540). Evidence for and against the heavier pentaquark states, the Ξ(1862) and the Θ 0 c (3100) observed at CERN and at HERA, respectively, are also discussed. I conclude that the evidence ...