6 Rina P. M. Wong, Harin Karunajeewa, Ivo Mueller, Peter Siba, Peter A. Zimmerman, 7 Timothy M. E. Davis 8 9 1. School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Fremantle Unit, University of Western 10 Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia. 11 2. Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea. 12 3. The Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve Univer...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate outcomes and complications using cemented modular distal femoral replacement in elderly patients with distal femoral fractures. DESIGN Retrospective chart review, case series. SETTING A Level 1 and Level 2 trauma center, both tertiary referral hospitals. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Eighteen patients older than 60 years (average age 77 years) who had cemented distal femora...

There is increasing recognition of the need for a Planetary Ethic (for example, the urgent call by Paul Kurtz). Western civil society is based, it may be argued, more on consensus of behaviours than values. Appeals for behavioural outcomes (road safety, anti-violence campaigns) seldom explicate fundamental principles. Given this, even the partial success achieved in creating ‘decent’ society is...

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different i...

Proper name systems provide individuals with personal identifiers, and convey social and hereditary information. We identify a common information structure in the name grammars of the world’s languages, which makes this complex information processing task manageable, and evaluate the impact that the re-engineering of naming practices for legal and political purposes has had on the communicative...

Until the mid-19th century, there had not been a single resident physician in the Holy Land. However, by the first World War in 1914, 19 hospitals had been established in Jerusalem. The reasons for this unusual phenomenon were religious, political, and sectarian. This does not apply to The Marienstift Kinderhospital, which was unique in 19th century Jerusalem. The hospital was founded and opera...

PRO: Because myoglobin comes only from heart and skeletal muscle, myoglobin was not detected in 20 'control' faeces from other Puebloan archaeological sites, nor in modern faeces from 29 healthy individuals and 10 patients with blood in their faeces. The myo-globin-specific antibody used does not detect the related blood protein haemoglobin 1. CON: Okay, you've proved one case of cannibalism, b...