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Knowing About Diagrams

Understanding diagrams and using them in problem solving requires extensive knowledge about the properties of diagrams, what diagram elements denote, how their parts are distinguished and referenced, how they relate to linguistic statements, and so forth. This knowledge is most naturally represented linguistically. Nonetheless, diagrams or imaginal representations of them are used in substantiv...

More questions about neoadjuvant chemotherapy in lung cancer.

Not the Same Populations! When one compares the published meta-analysis of modern day induction and adjuvant chemotherapy trials, similar hazard ratios of just above 0.80 are seen with both strategies.[1,2] It is probably dangerous to conclude that these approaches have a similar efficacy, however, as the populations studied in induction trials are different from those in adjuvant studies. The ...

More Dengue, More Questions

engue is epidemic or endemic in virtually every country in the tropics; it is even cited in the Guinness World Records, 2002, as the world's most important viral hemorrhagic fever and the most geographically widespread of the arthropodborne viruses. As illustrated in this issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, dengue epidemics are expanding rapidly, as is the literature on the subject. That den...

Doing Better By Knowing More

series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, who, with his friend and colleague Tom Joe, founded the Center for the Study of Social Policy in 1979 and chaired its board from 2000 until his death in 2009. Harold contributed much to the field of children's and family services. His distinguished career reflected his belief that actions to improve children's and families' lives require a...