You are going to Paul’s party tonight. You have a long day of work ahead of you before that, but you can’t wait to get there. Your annoying friend comes up to you and says, ‘Hi! Oh, are you going to Paul’s party tonight? I don’t think I’ll go. Unless your going?’ You reply, ‘I have to work.’ There are lies and then there are misleading utterances that are not lies. You did not lie to your frien...

THIS conclusion has led the Royal Commission to recommend doubling the existing numbers of doctors within the next 30 years. This is an expensive proposal that is likely to add many millions of pounds to the annual budget of the nation. It requires careful examination. Estimates of medical manpower requirements are fraught with difficulties and hazards. The proposals of the Willink Committee (1...

Very few information repositories, especially corporate memories, are formal knowledge bases (KBs) since, despite its benefits, formal and scalable knowledge modelling is inherently a difficult and time-consuming exercise that current generic KB systems (KBSs) still do not guide well. Instead, repositories are most often composed of informal documents that are independently created by people (t...

Posttranscriptional regulation is of critical importance during mammalian spermiogenesis. A set of mRNAs that encode proteins critical to normal sperm formation are synthesized early in the process of male germ cell differentiation and are stored in a repressed state. These mRNAs are subsequently translationally activated during the process of spermatid elongation and maturation. Of note, the t...

This paper provides a selective overview of the past, present and future of pediatric psychopharmacology. The acceptance of medication use in child psychiatry was based on the results of double-blind, placebo-controlled trials documenting the efficacy of drug treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, enuresis, depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and psych...