The Music & Science Symposium in Boston on April 12, 2013 was designated to merge new findings in the fields of music neuroscience, music therapy, music cognition, music technology, and music medicine. Experts in these respective fields presented four talks as well as musical performances. Dr. Psyche Loui reported recent findings in music-related neuropsychological research, followed by Dr. Con...

This paper assesses India’s current fiscal situation, its likely future evolution, and impacts on the economy. We examine possible reforms of macroeconomic policy (including fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy) and broader institutional reforms that will bear on the macroeconomic situation. We also consider the political feasibility of possible reforms. We examine both medium and longer r...

Reproductive health (RH) and related needs during conflict and post-conflict situations are massive, acute, and complex to meet [1–4]. RH indicators for conflictaffected and post-conflict countries are worse than for least-developed countries (LDCs) not directly affected by conflict. Despite studies showing that funding for sexual and reproductive health programmes have consistently not met agr...

To the Editor.—We read with interest the recently published case report by Patel et al describing a patient who died suddenly and for whom immunohistochemistry of the autopsy sample demonstrated marked immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)–positive lymphocytic infiltration in the coronary artery wall and other organs, including the kidney, pancreas, and lymph nodes. Coronary artery involvement of IgG4-relat...

Davis C. Thomas, Jaimin Patel, Sanjana Santhosh Kumar, Janani Dakshinamoorthy, Yonatan Greenstein, Harita Kamalam Ravindran, Priyanka Kodaganallur Pitchumani

DLP [Patel-Schneider(1998)] and FaCT [Horrocks(1998)] are two recent description logic systems that contain sound and complete reasoners for expressive description logics. Due to the equivalences between expressive description logics and propositional modal logics, both DLP and FaCT can be used as satisfiability checkers for propositional modal logics. FaCT is a full-featured system that contai...

Many people with depression and other mental health problems can be treated successfully by community health workers, but so far no country has scaled up this approach. Vikram Patel talks to Fiona Fleck.

W Balemans, N Patel, M Ebeling, E Van Hul, W Wuyts, C Lacza, M Dioszegi, F G Dikkers, P Hildering, P J Willems, J B G M Verheij, K Lindpaintner, B Vickery, D Foernzler, W Van Hul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...