It has been known that, in aggregating infinite utility streams, there does not exist any social welfare function, which satisfies the axioms of Pareto, inter-generational equity and continuity. We show that the impossibility result persists even without imposing the continuity axiom. Hence, the problem of accommodating inter-generational equity is more obstinate than previously supposed. The p...

Mrs. M., aged 60. A very thin, ill-nourished woman, of melancholy temperament. She has always had wretched health, and at the present time has marked signs of pulmonary phthisis. For many years she has suffered, at short intervals, from attacks of acute dyspepsia, accompanied by very obstinate constipation ; and at these times she experiences great pain in the abdomen. When I was called in to s...

was passed freely and the bowels were opened once. The urine was normal in all respects. A peculiar symptom shewn was that the patient continually dipped his face and head into water. On being questioned he explained that he felt as if something was passing under the skin of the hands, face and head, and that the application of cold water relieved him. These symptoms persisted for some seven to...

Eosinophilic enteritis (EOE) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease and is characterized clinically by chronic obstinate diarrhea. Three Japanese Black (JB) fattening cattle (2 males and 1 female) on different cattle farms presented with chronic episodic diarrhea without fever or dehydration. Soft reddish spherical carneous tissues (1-3 cm) were occasionally excreted within the diarrheic feces...

A broncho-pulmonary artery fistula is one of the most fatal complications of lung cancer surgery. This article discusses the case of a patient who died of massive hemoptysis after a left upper lobectomy. There were no previous signs of broncho-pleural fistula except for an obstinate dry cough and slightly elevated serum C-reactive protein levels after surgery. An autopsy revealed that a fistula...

Technology transfer has become recognised as a key factor in people’s efforts to implement information technology in diverse spheres of modern life, and particularly at the workplace. However, ‘transfer’ is a unidirectional conceptualisation of the processes of technology design and implementation. It veils the work of interpretation, mediation, and reshaping involved in the processes of ‘techn...

In the event of its being of interest to the writer, and may be to others, I send yon the following ?0tes with regard to a disease most prevalent in this district, both in children and adults, and one which is often very obstinate in lending itself to treatment. I have seen it in all its varied forms. In children chiefly as small blisters, in adults commonly as a purple sponginess of the gums w...