The velocity of growth, taken as the reciprocal of the time required to attain a given size or stage of development, obeys with some exactness the Arrhenius equation for relation to temperature. The values of micro, and the type of "breaks" found in the curves connecting velocity and temperature, are similar to those found in the case of various other vital activities. More precise data, partic...

secondary victimization or revictimization by the justice system, because of their poor ability to defend their rights without help, and are even at risk of being excluded by the system. Especially vulnerable victims are usually minors, the elderly, disabled or mentally ill. Several studies have attempted to establish the prevalence of some of these especially vulnerable victims, mainly minors ...

1. In tuberculosis meningitis there is a tuberculosis endarteritis characterized by the formation of intimal tubercles and a diffuse subendothelial, intimal proliferation due to implantation of tubercle bacili from the blood. From the endarteritis the infiltration may spread into the muscular coat and the adventitia, and the whole wall may undergo caseous and hyaline degeneration. 2. Tuberculou...

This expository article reviews the game-theoretic framework for probability and the method of defensive forecasting that derives from it. The game-theoretic framework, introduced by Vladimir Vovk and myself in Probability and Finance: It’s Only a Game! (Wiley 2001 [51]), can replace measure theory as a mathematical framework for classical probability theory, discrete and continuous. Classical ...

There are about 13 million people spread over the globe who can trace their origins back to the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan). The term Indo-origin is used to describe them in this article. The official figure of 1.5 million Indo-origin people settled in the United Kingdom is certainly an underestimate which the 1991 census results may improve.' The majority are still first-...

Early psychiatry investigated dreams to understand psychopathologies. Contemporary psychiatry, which neglects dreams, has been criticized for lack of objectivity. In search of quantitative insight into the structure of psychotic speech, we investigated speech graph attributes (SGA) in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, and non-psychotic controls as they reported waking and dr...

The plasma-amylase level is almost invariably raised at the height of an attack of acute pancreatitis. However, the diagnostic value of this is limited by the occasional finding of .qually high levels in patients with acute abdominal conditions which are not primarily acute pancreatitis. In our experience such " false-positive " findings have been commonly associated with a history of gastrecto...