The recent work of Chick and Hume,’ Cohen and Mendel,2 Hess and Unger,z and Givens and Cohen4 gives full support to the earlie,r views of Hoist and Fr61ichK that scurvy is the result of a deficiency of some nutritive factor in the diet. If we understand by the term vitamine the chemically unknown substances of food origin essential for the normal performance of the function of animal life there...

Budapeşte’de dünyaya gelen ve yaşamının büyük bir bölümünü Londra’da geçiren Edmund de Unger, babasının halı koleksiyonun da etkisiyle her zaman İslami eserlerle iç içe hayat sürmüştür. Koleksiyonuna adını veren Keir House’da eserler koleksiyonunu oluşturan 8. yüzyıldan 19. yüzyıla kadar pek çok eser ile evini müzeye çevirmiştir. Emevi, Abbasi, Memlük, İran Hint gibi uygarlık ülkeden eserlere i...

A number of formal epistemologists have argued that perfect rationality requires probabilistic coherence, a requirement they often claim applies only to ideal agents. However, in “Rationality as an Absolute Concept,” Roy Sorensen contends ‘rational’ is absolute term. Just Peter Unger being flat surface be completely free bumps and blemishes, claims rational perfectly rational. When we combine t...

Abstract Barrier properties are very important in food packaging; the better properties, longer product can stay fresh packaging, which prolongs shelf life of product. One way improving barrier is to modifying existing coatings with addition metal oxides, nanoparticles, or natural extracts. The aim study was compare between paper coated starch and black cherry extract mix. Prunus serotina extra...

Is ‘vague’ vague? Aldrich (1937: 94) didn’t think so. Austin (1962: 126) did, and Sorensen (1985) offered a proof. Deas (1989) rejected the proof, but in (2003) I sided with Sorensen. Now Hull (2005) replies on behalf of Deas. Why so much fuss about a single word? One reason, I think, is that a lot depends on how we settle the question. For example, Frege (1903: §56) famously remarked that logi...

1 To achieve this ambitious goal, there is an appropriate strong focus on counseling and educating our patients about hyper-tension, diabetes mellitus, and healthy behaviors. However, there is an additional opportunity that may ultimately be critical to our success. Too often neglected, contextual factors also have a strong influence on cardiovascular risk. By contex-tual variables, we mean the...

Like Humpty Dumpty, many philosophers take pride in saying what they mean and meaning what they say. Literalism does have its virtues, like when you're drawing up a contract or programming a computer, but generally we prefer to speak loosely and leave a lot to inference. Language works far more efficiently that way. Two Kinds of Looseness It helps if you can rely on people not to take you too l...