Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use the metaphor of contract very loosely to ground a claim that citizens are morally obligated to defer t...

A 76-year-old woman was admitted for cardiac decompensation, hypertension, and renal failure. To explore her chronic hypertension, urinary fractionated metanephrines were quantified. Fig. 1A shows the chromatogram of the patient’s urine, and Fig. 1B shows the chromatogram of a calibration standard. A very large methoxytyramine peak was observed (Fig. 1A, black arrow). The peak signal was satura...

\An adaptive and fault tolerant wormhole routing strategy for k-ary n-cubes, 23 the policy would divide the packets into classes depending on their degree of adaptiveness. An output selection policy that waits a short period before selecting a nonpreferred output channel, especially one that leads away from the destination, may improve performance. Also beneecial for nonminimal routing may be a...

Data from eight experiments on semantic verification are presented. Two procedures were used, a standard reaction time procedure and a response signal procedure. Data from the response signal procedure showed that for false category-member statements (e.g., all birds are robins), there was an increasing tendency to respond yes early in processing, replaced later in processing by an increasing t...

It is an honor and privilege to address you as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. For more than 100 years, this organization has represented the best of physician-scientists. Since it is now 2012, there is the possibility that this could be the last ASCI presidential address. But we will assume the Mayans miscalculated and that we should look to the future. With the A...