Motivation. The theory of affine (Kac-Moody) Lie algebras has been a tremendous success story. Not only has one been able to generalize essentially all of the well-developed theory of finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras and their associated groups to the setting of affine Lie algebras, but these algebras have found many striking applications in other parts of mathematics. It is natural to as...

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BACKGROUND The indiscriminate use of cough and cold medicines (CCMs) in children has become a public health concern. The study evaluates the prescription pattern of CCMs in primary care setting. METHODS Analysis of CCMs prescription data among children aged 12 years and below who had participated in the National Medical Care Survey (NMCS) 2010. Data was extracted from NMCS 2010, a cross-secti...

Moody is right that the doctrine of conscious inessentialism (CI) is false. Unfortunately, his zombie-based argument against (CI), once made suf-ciently clear to evaluate, is revealed as nothing but legerdemain. The fact is, though Moody has|for reasons I explain|convinced himself otherwise , certain zombies are impenetrable: that they are zombies, and not conscious beings like us, is something...

Several cases of respiratory disease, varying in severity from a dry cough to severe bronchospasm, have recently occurred in a few British textile factories. They appear to be connected with the use of ground tamarind seed as a sizing agent. Although the seed had been used extensively in India for this purpose, no untoward effects on health had been reported but shortly after its introduction i...