This paper briefly reviews highlights from decades of debates in medicine, law, bioethics, psychology and social research about children’s and parents’ views and consent to medical treatment and research. There appears to have been a rise and later a fall in respect for children’s views, illustrated among many examples by a recent book on the zone of parental discretion, which is reviewed. A re...

Hyperinterpolation at Morrow-Patterson-Xu cubature points for the product Chebyshev measure provides a simple and powerful polynomial approximation method on rectangles. Here, we present an accurate and efficient Matlab/Octave implementation of the hyperinterpolation formula, accompanied by several numerical tests.

In this paper we generalize Yu’s [Ann. Probab. 24 (1996) 2079–2097] strong invariance principle for associated sequences to the multiparameter case, under the assumption that the covariance coefficient u(n) decays exponentially as n → ∞. The main tools that we use are the following: the Berkes and Morrow [Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Gebiete 57 (1981) 15–37] multi-parameter blocking technique, the Csörgő ...

PHILONOUS: Good morrow, Hylas. I did not expect to find you abroad so early. HYLAS: It is indeed something unusual. But my thoughts were so taken up with a subject I was discoursing of last night that, finding I could not sleep, I resolved to rise and take a turn in the garden.... You were rep‐ resented in last nightʹs conversation as one who maintained the most extravagant opinion that ever en...

This paper studies the impact of productivity growth on the rates of worker ‡ows, and thus the unemployment rate. I …nd that in the U.S. labor market, faster productivity growth reduces the separation rate and the unemployment rate in the long-run. I incorporate disembodied technological progress, on-the-job search and sunk costs of creating job positions into a model of endogenous job separati...

The authors report the case of a 60-year-old patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), systolic anterior motion (SAM), and high gradient in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) who underwent surgical treatment. During the surgery, myomectomy of the septum was performed using the Morrow method: despite the persisting SAM and increased LVOT gradients, the mitral valve was not replaced....