One fundament. One firework. Plant it and retreat. Sadly, the result seems to have been barely a fizzle. Roger Cooter tried to provoke a debate in these pages about how ‘medico-centric historians’ should engage with what he sees as the fundamentally ‘bio-centric’ contemporary world. Well, I for one feel like I’ve had a firework stuck up the centre of my bio-existence, and I intend to return the...

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BACKGROUND Early discharge after childbirth is widely reported. In this study the authors examined trends in maternal length of hospital stay in Canada from fiscal year 1984-85 through fiscal year 1994-95. They also examined variations in length of stay in 1994-95 in most of the Canadian provinces and the territories. METHODS Epidemiologic analyses of the temporal and geographic variations in...

We estimate a model of ticket resale that incorporates strategic effort choices by consumers and brokers in the primary market, rational anticipation of resale activity, and the resulting resale market equilibrium. Estimation is based on a unique dataset that combines detailed sales data from both the primary and secondary markets for a sample of major rock concerts. We use the estimated model ...

Nous delimitons un champ d9attaque cylindrique chez une larve de Chaoborus qui se nourrit de zooplancton, et nous proposons un mod2le mathematique qui pr6dit le taux de rencontre avec des proies pour ce p6dateur i l'dffit. Le modkle se base sur le processus de rencontre d'un cylindre stationnaire avec des sphkres qui se deplacent au hasard et h vitesse constante. Les prkdictions du modkle sont ...

In 2007, Kaiser Permanente's (KP) Southern California Region designed and implemented a systematic in-reach program, the Proactive Office Encounter (POE), to address the growing needs of its three million patients for preventive care and management of chronic disease. The program sought staff from both primary and specialty care departments to proactively identify gaps in care and to assist phy...

Despite the importance that is attributed to coping as a factor in psychological and somatic health outcomes, little is known about actual coping processes, the variables that influence them, and their relation to the outcomes of the stressful encounters people experience in their day-to-day lives. This study uses an intraindividual analysis of the interrelations among primary appraisal (what w...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...

Plants rely on transcriptional dynamics to respond to multiple climatic fluctuations and contexts in nature. We analyzed the genome-wide gene expression patterns of rice (Oryza sativa) growing in rainfed and irrigated fields during two distinct tropical seasons and determined simple linear models that relate transcriptomic variation to climatic fluctuations. These models combine multiple enviro...