Two Different Aspects of Social Order

Different aspects of transient ischemic dilation

  Transient ischemic left ventricular dilation (TID) is a marker of severe and extensive coronary artery disease as well as an increased risk of adverse outcomes. The patients with more severe and extensive ischemia, multivessel-type of perfusion abnormality as well as patients with left anterior descending artery (LAD) territory perfusion abnormality have more probab...

Convention, Social Order, and the Two Coordinations

The word “coordination” has two meanings, and these meanings are often conflated. One meaning, associated with Thomas Schelling, is seen in situations like choosing whether to drive on the left or the right; the drivers must coordinate to each other’s behavior. The other meaning, associated with Friedrich Hayek, means that a concatenation of activities is arranged so as to produce good results....

Higher-Order Aspects in Order

In aspect-oriented programming languages, advice evaluation is usually considered as part of the base program evaluation. This is also the case for certain pointcuts, such as if pointcuts in AspectJ, or simply all pointcuts in higher-order aspect languages like AspectScheme. While viewing pointcuts and advice as base level computation clearly distinguishes AOP from reflection, it also comes at ...

Social Aspects of Tuberculosis

Social Aspects of Information

In recent decades, institutions have been moving away from the positivism evident in many disciplines in the earlier years of the 20 century. Instead of seeking for a single truth or standard, institutional assessments have become local in nature within a framework of best practices. Similarly, librarianship must move in that direction in responding to local needs. With the advent of a new cent...