“There is no nation without history, there is no family without a family tree”

There is no wealth without mental health.

• Major depressive disorder is a risk factor in the development of coronary heart disease. Individuals with depression are more likely to experience an adverse cardiac event such as a heart attack or blood clots. Depression has proven to be such a risk factor in cardiac disease that the American Heart Association has recommended that all cardiac patients be screened for depression. • People who...

There Is No Agency Without Attention

ences of the Artificial with a parable about an ant making her way home across a beach and comments that the complexity of her route is not a manifestation of any complex, goal-seeking behavior within the ant but rather reflects the complexity of the environment. The ant “must adapt [her] course repeatedly to the difficulties [she] encounters and often detour uncrossable barriers.” The question...

Without therapeutic drug monitoring, there is no personalized cancer care.

TDM and exposure–response relationships TDM is the measurement and interpretation of drug concentrations in biological fluids so as to determine the correct drug dosage for an individual patient.1 The technique requires that dose be correlated with exposure and that exposure be correlated with pharmacodynamic (PD) response. Exposure metrics include the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters: area unde...

The Dark Internet: Without Darkness There is No Light

What is the Bright Internet? One way to define ‘bright’ is to explore darkness. The purpose of this panel is to clarify what is meant by the ‘Bright Internet’ by presenting the contrast of the ‘Dark Internet’ and the dark web. The panelists, all of whom have expertise in the dark side of Internet and information technology use, will discuss deception, fraud, phishing, terrorism, and the dark web.

Why Aristotle Says There is No Time Without Change