Useful and acceptable presents

THE MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM presents

Phase transitions are one of the most common phenomena, e.g., water and vapor in our daily life, or liquid crystal for a laptop. In the last few decades, extensive explorations have been made on stationary phase transitions, e.g. theory of renormalization group. In contrast, much less understanding is yet available for the dynamics, namely, the evolution of a system undergoing phase transitions...

Are symbols useful and culturally acceptable in health-state valuation studies? An exploratory study in a multi-ethnic Asian population

BACKGROUND Symbols have been used in health state valuation studies to help subjects distinguish the severity of various characteristics of a given health state. Symbols used in such studies need to be evaluated for their cross-cultural appropriateness because a given symbol may have different meanings or acceptability in different cultures, which may affect results of such studies. OBJECTIVE...

UHC Presents Universal Challenges

Margaret McCartney: Christmas presents.

With Christmas come the presents, but since graduation they’ve caused me disquiet. They arrived, carefully and thoughtfully wrapped, some with notes and cards, some with just my name. In accepting gifts from patients, I was disturbed. I thought, firstly, that they were being given under false pretences. I wasn’t doing any more than the average doctor, maybe less: I’d made mistakes; had missed t...

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