Using a vague predicate can make commitments about the appropriate use of that predicate in the remaining part of the discourse. For instance, if I assert that some particular pig is fat, I am committed to judging any fatter pig to be fat as well. We can model this update effect by recognizing that truth depends both on the state of the world and on the state of the discourse: the truth conditi...

We present a dissenting view of some aspects of the work of the Crystal Barrel collaboration. We have found through the World Wide Web a review article Claude Amsler has submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics and entitled " ¯ pp Annihilation and Meson Spectroscopy with the Crystal Barrel " , hep-ex/9708025. We have major disagreements of both history and scientific fact concerning this review. ...

Sixty-seven female and 54 male college students participated in a study of sexual disagreements in which the man desired to engage in a higher level of sexual activity than did the woman. Participants kept an ongoing record of dates and disagreements and provided descriptive information about some of these. We had three goals: (a) to determine how frequently this type of disagreement occurs in ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine family disagreements about treatment decisions for patients with advanced lung cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Descriptive, qualitative study. SETTING A large comprehensive cancer center in Cleveland, OH. PARTICIPANTS 37 patients with stage III or IV lung cancer and 40 caregivers (24 primary and 16 secondary) from 26 families were interviewed. METHODOLOGIC APPROA...

Managed care uses financial incentives and restrictions on tests and procedures to attempt to influence physician decision making and limit costs. Increasingly, the public is questioning whether physicians are truly making decisions based on the patient's best interest or are unduly influenced by economic incentives. These circumstances lead to the potential for disagreements and conflict in th...

Campylobacter jejuni antibiotic resistance is rising with a variable geographical pattern; but there is limited data from the Arabian Gulf region. We assessed the sensitivity of human (117) and chicken (33) C. jejuni isolates to erythromycin, ciprofloxacin, tetracycline and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole by agar dilution, disc diffusion and the E test. Only 2 human isolates were resistant to ery...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of a computerized clinical decision-support system (CDSS) designed to support assessment and management of pediatric asthma in a subspecialty clinic. DESIGN Cohort study of all asthma visits to pediatric pulmonology from January to December, 2009. MEASUREMENTS CDSS and physician assessments of asthma severity, control, and treatment step. RESULTS Both th...

Disagreements about normative aspects of social time preferences have led to estimates the cost carbon (SCC) that differ by orders magnitude. We investigate how disagreements SCC change if planners are nondogmatic, is, they admit possibility a in their views and internalize future selves. Although nondogmatic may disagree all contentious preferences, reduce dramatically. Admitting once every 40...