Michael P. Kramer. New Essays on Bellow’s Seize the Day.

Seize the State , Seize the Day : State

Triangling Bellow’s Seize the Day

Over the years, new theories of literary criticism have invariably emerged as a response, critique to, and development of the earlier criticisms. This paper introduces a relatively new literary theory that can enrich the repertoire of literary criticism in Indonesian context, namely family systems therapy or FST, through a critical analysis of Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, an American author wh...

Screening for chlamydia: seize the day.

Background Genital Chlamydia trachomatis is the commonest bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the UK, with the number of cases diagnosed in genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics having increased continuously since the early 1990s to over 89 000 in 2003, an 8% increase on the previous year. The prevalence in the UK has been reported between 2% and 29%, depending on the testing site, popul...

Seize the State, Seize the Day An empirical analysis of State Capture and Corruption in Transition

[Abstract] Corruption has recently risen to the top of the development agenda, particularly in the transition economies. However, existing empirical research has been hampered by the lack of detailed and comparative data on the problem. We use the data from the ongoing Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to unbundle corruption into its specific constituent components ...

Invited commentary: consequential(ist) epidemiology: let's seize the day.

Now is the time for the science of epidemiology to embrace its pragmatic roots. The article by Galea in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2013;178(8):1185-1191) calls for us to become more "consequentialist." The Affordable Care Act allows us to access population-level databases from which we can examine how to deliver care more efficiently and cost-effectively. Asking the questions "s...