BACKGROUND The 30 minute and 24 hour post-inhalation urinary excretion of salbutamol represents the relative amount of drug deposited in the lungs and total systemic absorption, respectively. Using this method two metered dose inhalers used with a Volumatic (Allen and Hanburys Ltd, UK) large volume spacer have been compared. METHOD Eleven healthy volunteers inhaled 4 x 100 micrograms salbutam...

Robyn Norton is co-founder and Principal Director of The George Institute for Global Health (Australia), a not-for-profit medical research institute that aims to increase the provision of safe, effective and affordable healthcare, especially for disadvantaged populations worldwide. She is Professor of Global Health and James Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK), Professor of Public He...

John Norton has advanced a general view of induction—‘Material Theory of Induction’—that renders ampliative reasoning in a deep sense local. This paper is a sympathetic appraisal of this view, applying it to the scientific realism debate. It argues that the scientific realist should turn to such local construal of ampliative reasoning in her attempt to justify beliefs about unobservables. More ...

Vol. XLVIII (June 2011), 555 –565 *Debora V. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Marketing, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University ([email protected]). Michael I. Norton is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School, Harvard University ([email protected]). The authors thank the anonymous JMR reviewers; John Deighton; Claudiu Dimofte; Noah Goldstein; Rebecca Hamilton; R...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) initially developed by Kaplan and Norton, is a performance management system that enables businesses to drive strategies based on measurement and follow-up. In recent years, the BSC has been applied to information technology (IT). The IT BSC is becoming a popular tool with its concepts widely dispersed by international consultant groups such as GartnerGroup, Renaiss...

In this talk we consider the relationship between the conjectured uniqueness of the Moonshine module V of Frenkel, Lepowsky and Meurman and Monstrous Moonshine, the genus zero property for Thompson series discovered by Conway and Norton. We discuss some evidence to support the uniqueness of V by considering possible alternative orbifold constructions of V from a Leech lattice compactified strin...