Iraqi Political Theater: More than a Comment

More than modus vivendi, less than overlapping consensus: towards a political theory of social compromise

Political theory often relies on a definite vision of the lack of consensus, which does not necessarily exclude the possibility of some modus vivendi. It turns out however that a mere modus vivendi is widely felt to be insufficient to warrant political stability and a well-ordered society. Starting from distributive-justice issues and problems of ethical conflict in democratic society, it is ar...

Hotelling competition and political differentiation with more than two newspapers

We analyse a newspaper market where media …rms compete for advertising as well as for readership. Firms …rst choose the political position of their newspaper, then set cover prices and advertising tari¤s. We build on the duopoly work in two-sided markets of Gabszewicz, Laussel, and Sonnac (2001, 2002) who show that advertising …nancing can lead to minimum political di¤erentiation. We extend the...

Is there more to parental supervision than political incorrectness?

Upper extremity vascular injury: a current in-theater wartime report from Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Past wartime experience and recent civilian reports indicate upper extremity (UE) vascular injury occurs less often and with less limb loss than lower extremity (LE) injury. Given advances in critical care, damage control techniques, and military armor technology, the objective of this evaluation was to define contemporary patterns of UE injury and effectiveness of vascular surgical management ...

oct-4: more than a pluripotent marker?

received: 23/sep/2008, accepted: 23/nov/2008oct-4/ pou5f1/ oct-3, a pou domain family protein acts as a crucial transcription factor dur- ing embryonic development. it helps in maintenance of self renewal as well as pluripotential state of embryonic stem (es) cells. its expression starts right from 2 cell stage especially prior to 8 cell stage till the blastocyst stage where it is strongly exp...