Infectious Disease: ExPECting the Worst

Expecting the Worst

Expecting Many

The determiner many is analyzed relative to a notion of expectation that is introduced into contexts employed in the theory of generalized quantiiers. Issues concerning intensionality, vagueness, ambiguity and context change are considered along the way.

The Infectious Disease Physician

The obstetrician-gynecologist who specializes in infectious diseases has a responsibility to patients, other physicians, residents, medical students, and industrial leaders. The infectious disease physician's clinical responsibilities cross all specialties with obstetrics and gynecology. We have spent a great deal of time writing, giving CME courses, special symposia and lectures, teaching resi...

Expecting the Unexpected - Radiation Hardened Software

Radiation induced Single Event Effects (SEEs) are a serious problem for spacecraft flight software, potentially leading to a complete loss of mission. Conventional risk mitigation has been focused on hardware, leading to slow, expensive and outdated on-board computing devices, increased power consumption and launch mass. Our approach is to look at SEEs from a software perspective, and to explic...

Alcoholism – the Worst Addiction

Introduction: The most common substance of abuse/dependence in patients presenting for treatment in western countries is alcohol. Ethyl alcohol or ethanol which is also called medicinal alcohol is used as an official drug compendium. It is also administered as an antidote in methanol poisoning. However, regular consumption of high amounts of alcoholic drinks induces dependence and addiction lea...