When Guests Simply Will Not Leave

To leave or not to leave.

Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

Anomalous control: when 'free-will' is not conscious.

The conscious feeling of exercising 'free-will' is fundamental to our sense of self. However, in some psychopathological conditions actions may be experienced as involuntary or unwilled. We have used suggestion in hypnosis to create the experience of involuntariness (anomalous control) in normal participants. We compared a voluntary finger movement, a passive movement and a voluntary movement s...

Children—Not Simply “Little Adults”

Will We Ever Classify Simply-connected Smooth 4-manifolds?

These notes are adapted from two talks given at the 2004 Clay Institute Summer School on Floer homology, gauge theory, and low dimensional topology at the Alfred Rényi Institute. We will quickly review what we do and do not know about the existence and uniqueness of smooth and symplectic structures on closed, simply-connected 4-manifolds. We will then list the techniques used to date and captur...

Optimizing Outcomes When Patients Leave Against Medical AdviceOptimizing Outcomes When Patients Leave Against Medical AdviceOptimizing Outcomes When Patients Leave Against Medical Advice

• Objective: To examine the epidemiology of patients leaving against medical advice (AMA) and offer recommendations for delivering high-quality care. • Design: Case presentations and review of the litera-