On Having a Good

On Having a Baby

I am a clinical psychologist, trained to watch and observe others, as well as to sit back, as it were, and to observe my own feelings and behaviour. A few weeks ago I had my first baby. I want to set down some thoughts in connection with the care I got at the hospital while the event is still fresh in my mind. Firstly, I should like to pay tribute to the nurses working in the maternity wards, w...

Statin therapy: having the good without the bad.

Because serum cholesterol level is strongly associated with coronary heart disease, it has been generally assumed that cholesterol reduction by 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors or statins is the predominant mechanism underlying their beneficial effects. However, large prospective trials with statins suggest that these agents may have beneficial effects in cardiovascular...

On Twin--Good Rings

In this paper, we investigate various kinds of extensions of twin-good rings. Moreover, we prove that every element of an abelian neat ring R is twin-good if and only if R has no factor ring isomorphic to‌ Z2  or Z3. The main result of [24] states some conditions that any right self-injective ring R is twin-good. We extend this result to any regular Baer ring R by proving that every elemen...

Being Liked is More than Having a Good Personality: The Role of Matching.

Is possession of desirable personality characteristics the only predictor that someone will be well-liked in a group of acquaintances, or will similarity to others in the group also matter? We tested participants (n=844) who had been randomly assigned to peer groups and had spent 6 weeks together. Participants assessed self and peer personalities in a round-robin design. We found that after con...

On group Elements Having Square Roots