ver four decades ago, Milton Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman 1962). This insightful little book traveled across a broad range of important topics collected around the theme of how government can best operate within a free society. The message was expanded two decades later in Free to Choose (Friedman and Friedman 1980). At the time, the battle of the ideas introduced by thes...

IT HAS BEEN demonstrated in different laboratories that chronic treatment with desoxycorticosterone acetate (DCA) induces in rats a particular type of hypertensive disease.' Observations by Friedman and Friedman, Friedman, Friedman and Nakashima, Prado and Herbert-Carrington, Magaldi and Prado showed that following abrupt interruption of the desoxycorticosterone treatment, from 30 to 40 per cen...

Abstract The paper addresses the limitations of Moth-Flame Optimization (MFO) algorithm, a meta-heuristic used to solve optimization problems. MFO which employs moths' transverse orientation navigation technique, has been generate solutions for such However, performance is dependent on flame production and spiral search components, mechanism could still be improved concerning diversity flames a...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine if sensory block following spinal anaesthesia, measured with a range of devices, corresponded to the hierarchy of nerve fibre size in the area of differential block, and to compare the distribution and variability of recorded measurements. METHODS Women with singleton pregnancies > 36 weeks of gestation undergoing elective caesarean section un...

introduction: good radiographs are required for endodontic therapy and because some patient’s are intolerant to intraoral films and/or sensors, this can cause complications in endodontic treatment. extraoral film placement can be used to obtain clinically diagnostic and working radiographs. materials and methods: the no. 2 receptor was placed against the model ’ s cheek and centered in the mola...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to analyze the speech-language-hearing therapists’ perception of structured tests proposed by current Chilean regulations assess and diagnose language in children. Methods: a questionnaire their three (the Test Auditory Comprehension Language, revised Phonological Simplification Processes Assessment Screening Spanish Grammar). Differences were contrasted with Friedman test, po...

inability to hear foetal heart sounds and on the apparent cessation of growth of the uterus after three examinations carried out at three-weekly intervals. The woman who felt well and was active had not been informed of the suspected death of her child. She felt no foetal movements and the repeated enquiries about the movements from her anxious husband led the young expectant mother to suspect ...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.004 q Part of this research has been presented at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 (Friedman, Hasler, Brovman, & Tuchman, 2011). ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +972 54 524 2926; fax: +972 9 952 7650. E-mail addresse...

While teaching my classmates and me graduate microeconomics at Auburn University in 1995, David Laband recounted a story from his first year of doctoral studies in economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. As he read for a class taught by Gordon Tullock, Laband came upon what he believed was an error by Milton Friedman. The then-graduate student went to Tullock’s office, where the professor,...