Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin cancer and causes about 27,000 deaths in U.S. men each year.1 However, the only U.S. randomized trial of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening did not find a mortality benefit after 13 years of follow-up.2 Even after results from a European trial found slightly lower prostate cancer– specific (but not all-cause) mortality in screened participants, ...

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These patterns are for two closely related audiences, the authors and the shepherds. Why have one set of patterns for two audiences? The obvious reason is that authors and shepherds are often the same people, and much of the advice is the same. But more importantly, an author can gain great insights by understanding what a reader – in this case, the shepherd – is looking for. So I modified the ...

This work present the main features of the ADVICE (IST 1999-11305) project, a research project whose main aim is to develop a virtual assistant for e-shops that imitates the behaviour of a human vendor.

Numerous ancient sources attest that Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a fifth-century bce tyrant whose polis came under Persian rule in 524 bce, figures prominently Xerxes' naval campaign against Greece. At least since Pompeius Trogus' first-century Philippic History, interpretations have juxtaposed her "virile courage" (uirilem audaciam) with "womanish fear" (muliebrem timorem) primarily as means b...