Reasonable Search and Research

The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Research in Mathematics Education

You may recognize the title above as a play on the title of an article by Richard W Hamming, ''The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics,'' which appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly in February 1980 In his article, Hamming asks the question, "Why is mathematics so unreasonably effective?" He offers some partial explanations but ends by saying that these explanations are so insuffi...

Constitutional Law-Search and Seizure-No Knock Entry Held Reasonable in Virginia When Exigencies Present

Restenosis, statistics, and reasonable inferences.

ith great interest I read the report by Weissman et al. (1) regarding ntravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis of polymer-based aclitaxel-eluting stents. The investigators stated in the text that positive remodeling assessed as the absolute increase in the xternal elastic membrane volume over time tended to be slightly ore prominent with the TAXUS stent (7.66 48.64 mm vs. 12.29 36.05 mm, respect...

Sham Surgery and Reasonable Risk

Reasonable partiality and animal ethics.

Moral psychology is often ignored in ethical theory, making applied ethics difficult to achieve in practice. This is particularly true in the new field of animal ethics. One key feature of moral psychology is recognition of the moral primacy of those with whom we enjoy relationships of love and friendship--philia in Aristotle's term. Although a radically new ethic for animal treatment is emergi...