Identity Crises and Confusions: Metamorphosis Constantiniana

Identity crises and strong compactness

Ideas, paradigms and confusions

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Flu confusions

While much of the reporting of swine flu in recent months has been of high quality, it has been accompanied by an unusual degree of error and confusion. Paradoxically, the journalists (and interviewees) to blame have often been those intent on correcting misapprehensions. " In the US, they've stopped trying to do individual case surveillance and they're focusing on testing healthy young adults ...

Financial Crises and Political Crises∗

The simultaneous determination of financial default and political crises is studied in an open economy model. Political crises accompany default in equilibrium because of an information transmission conflict between the government and the public. Multiple equilibria are possible: if foreign lenders are pessimistic about the country’s stability, they demand a high interest on the debt, exacerbat...

Surgical confusions in ophthalmology.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the hypothesis that surgical confusions rarely occur but are unacceptable to the public; occur in predictable circumstances; involve a wrong lens implant more often than a wrong eye, procedure, or patient; and can be prevented using the Universal Protocol. METHODS A retrospective series of 106 cases, including 42 from the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company and 64 fro...