In an ironic twist, the absence of clinical notes sufficient to properly rule on manslaughter and forgery charges brought in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against 77-year-old veteran Cape Town oncologist Professor Cyril Karabus may have led to his acquittal. On 6 December the prosecution failed for the second time to produce clinical notes made during the critical two weeks Karabus treated a 3...

Relationships of childhood weight status to morbidity in adults. Notes: This 35 year longitudinal study was done of 1,963 Hagerstown, MD white males who were 9-13 years old between 1923 and 1928 and 47/48 years old at followup. It showed that lean boys who became fat men had a twofold elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, whereas fat boys who remained fat as adults had only an average risk. ...

This is an edited and revised version of interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition Research Methods School on Corruption Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute Social Sciences, University Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 2021. The event was organized jointly with Centre International Cooperation Development Studies (IDC) Bucharest, part 7th Interdisc...

A new species of the Neotropical genus Platygonia Melichar, 1925 is described and illustrated from municipality Ipixuna, State Amazonas, Northern Brazil. nigra sp. nov. can be distinguished other by following combination features: (1) dark brown to black ground color dorsum; (2) presence a white pale yellow spot at distal portion corium; (3) male pygofer with conspicuous diagonal cleft; (4) con...

Automated methods to detect new information in clinical notes may be valuable for navigating and using information in these documents for patient care. Statistical language models were evaluated as a means to quantify new information over longitudinal clinical notes for a given patient. The new information proportion (NIP) in target notes decreased logarithmically with increasing numbers of pre...

This paper empirically analyzes a particular type of notes observed in securitization transactions: combination notes. Combination notes are formed by combining parts of two or more tranches of securitization transactions, where one part usually consists of a share of the first loss piece. It is analyzed whether combination notes are purely demand driven, or whether combination notes also appea...

"This article discusses in an essay style the challenges currently facing many of our local communities and national governments, society more generally, which are substantial profoundly concerning. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has only added another layer complexity. author notes increasing fragility democratic institutions nations growing prevalence autocratic leadership countries that tradit...

Preliminary statement. When I first wrote my lecture notes for the Part II course, Sarah Shea– Simonds very kindly typed the core notes in TeX, and I added to them bit by bit, again in TeX. However, my style was still rather like a telegram, partly as I was trying to save on paper. Now that I am retired, I have time to retype the notes in LaTeX. I have tried to make the style rather more ‘flowi...

Abstract This article aims to investigate the constraints on English translation of Arabic novel Saq Al-Bambu (The Bamboo Stalk) and identify strategies that were adopted render literary work in light Baker’s Taxonomy (1992). Examples collected classified thematically into four categories: social constraints, political religious cultural constraints. The findings showed used general terms refer...