Group Work in Challenging Times

Quality care in challenging times.

Every 72 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, an incurable affliction that kills at least 66,000 people annually, making it the nation's seventh leading cause of death. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 percent of cases (5.1 million people), according to the Alzheimer's Association, Chicago. Dementia describes a group of symptoms--...

Hard Times for Unions: Challenging Times for Scholars

It is rather disconcerting to open an envelope from a law review and find enclosed a manuscript of a forthcoming article to which the editors are asking you to respond. In this case, a quick glance at the opening page of Hard Times for Unions1 revealed that Professors LaLonde and Meltzer were referring to my article, Promises to Keep,2 as a "celebrated work." I knew full well, though, that thei...

Challenging Conventional Wisdom & Gender Work

Some Challenging Group Presentations

We study some challenging presentations which arise as groups of deeciency zero. In four cases we settle niteness: we show that two presentations are for nite groups while two are for innnite groups. Thus we answer three explicit questions in the literature and we provide the rst published deeciency zero presentation for a group with soluble length seven. The tools we use are coset enumeration ...

Challenging times for food allergy tests.

F ood allergies represent a significant problem in the western world, affecting about 7% of children under 3 years of age. 2 The impact of food allergies extend beyond the affected individual to their immediate family, as a great deal of anxiety is generated by the fear of a possible fatal food allergy and the practical problem of food avoidance. Consequently it is essential that a correct diag...