Notes on American Ferns: IX

Notes on Some Remedies IX. Amœbicides

There'is still an impression that the treatment of intestinal amcebiasis consists in simply giving a course of emetine injections which can be repeated periodically if the symptoms persist. This probably arose from the fact that, as with all new methods of treatment, early reports on emetine were unduly optimistic. The immediate effects of injections on the acute stage of amoebic dysentery, wit...

Linear Programming Notes IX: Two-Person Zero-Sum Game Theory

Economists use the word rational in a narrow way. To an economist, a rational actor is someone who makes decisions that maximize her (or his) preferences subject to constraints imposed by the environment. So, this actor knows her preferences and knows how to go about optimizing. It is a powerful approach, but it probably is only distantly related to what you mean when you think of yourself as r...

Linear Programming Notes IX: Two-Person Zero-Sum Game Theory

Economists use the word rational in a narrow way. To an economist, a rational actor is someone who makes decisions that maximize her (or his) preferences subject to constraints imposed by the environment. So, this actor knows her preferences and knows how to go about optimizing. It is a powerful approach, but it probably is only distantly related to what you mean when you think of yourself as r...

[Notes on childhood and theory: a Latin American approach].

This work seeks to introduce and examine different historically relevant theories and propose certain frameworks that allow for the development of a Latin American theoretical approach based in a new discourse regarding childhood and adolescence. In order to undertake the creation of this Latin American approach, understanding the category of childhood as a social and historical construction, t...

American Resorts, with Notes upon Their Climate