Natal court casts out government ruling

Ruling out speculative hyperinflations The role of the government

In this paper we show that if the government can levy taxes to back the currency, speculative hyperinflations are ruled out as equilibrium outcomes. This is so even though convertibility is never observed in equilibrium. The only observational difference between a pure fiat money economy and a convertible economy as the one described in this paper is the potential of the former to exhibit specu...

Ruling out and ruling in neural codes.

The subject of neural coding has generated much debate. A key issue is whether the nervous system uses coarse or fine coding. Each has different strengths and weaknesses and, therefore, different implications for how the brain computes. For example, the strength of coarse coding is that it is robust to fluctuations in spike arrival times; downstream neurons do not have to keep track of the deta...

Ruling Out Bacillus anthracis

Optimization of methods for ruling out Bacillus anthracis leads to increased yields, faster turnaround times, and a lighter workload. We used 72 environmental non-B. anthracis bacilli to validate methods for ruling out B. anthracis. Most effective were the use of horse blood agar, motility testing after isolates had a 2-h incubation in trypticase soy broth, and screening isolates with a B. anth...

Supreme Court ruling broadens BRCA testing options.

T he day after Mother's Day, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the New York Times revealing her decision to undergo a double mastectomy after learning that she carries a deleterious mutation in the BRCA1 gene. Jolie and women like her who have certain germ-line BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie, whose mother died from ovarian cancer, said s...

BHF 'upset but undeterred' by Appeal Court ruling.