insurance in this country. True, we have a great quantity of voluntary health insurance, but quantity and effectiveness are not synonymous. By dichotomizing the challenge and allowing only the alternative of sound medical practice, which preserves the physician-patient relationship, or socialism, Dr. Page permits himself to conclude that, " . . . the only practicable scheme that will relieve pe...

Exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs) provide a principled and flexible way to model and simulate features common in social networks, such as propensities for homophily, mutuality, and friend-of-a-friend triad closure, through choice of model terms (sufficient statistics). However, those ERGMs modeling the more complex features have, to date, been limited to binary data: presence or ab...

The competition among relations in nominals (CARIN) theory of conceptual combination (C. L. Gagné & E. J. Shoben, 1997) proposes that people interpret nominal compounds by selecting a relation from a pool of competing alternatives and that relation availability is influenced by the frequency with which relations have been previously associated with the modifying concept. The current authors der...