The research record is often manipulated for short term gain but at the risk of harm to patients. The medical research community needs to implement changes to ensure that readers obtain the truth about all research, especially reports of randomised trials, which hold a special place in answering what works best for patients. Failure to publish the findings of all studies, especially randomised ...

This chapter will shift the focus of attention away from the problems of understanding linguistic change that have occupied the discussion so far in order to examine the opposite situation: stable linguistic variation. The first step in a considered study of linguistic change is not the examination of change, but rather an investigation of the sociolinguistic patterns in the particular speech c...

In this article, a natural symplectic form on the space of all smooth sections with compact support of an arbitrary fiber bundle admitting a global section is constructed. If one has a local field theory whose Lagrangian’s kinetic term is a nondegenerate bilinear form on the total space, then the corresponding Poisson bracket produces the usual commutation relations for sections of low momentum...