Professor of Greek tells me that he truly believes the classics have made him what he is. This is a very grave statement, if well founded. Indeed, I have heard the same argument from a great many Latin and Greek scholars. They all claim, with some heat, that Latin and Greek have practically made them what they are. This damaging charge against the classics should not be too readily accepted. In...

time to see anything but the foreground of the picture, the immediate physical need. Dr. Cabot believes that it is necessary for the physician to see the background too, not only to diagnose the disease and prescribe the remedy, but also to find the underlying cause and root it out. This he cannot do without the help of the social worker, and in order to help him properly, she must be adequatel...

the iranian civil code has limited the effects of unknown condition to nullification of such condition provided that it results in ignorance with respect to consideration. the code conveys no explicit provision concerning the effect of such condition not resulting in the ignorance. unknown condition refers to a condition on which there is not complete and comprehensive knowledge. this article l...

administered antibiotics, fluids, or both, improve sepsis survival compared with usual care. These trials could usher in a new approachforthediagnosisandtreatmentofsepsis that starts in the ambulance, not the ED. Angus believes that in the future, randomized trials could be possible in a “Goldilocks” cohort of hospital patients with low or intermediate suspicion of infection and sepsis whomight...

although the majority of the scholars of the arabic prosody share the belief that mutadärik meter was devised and added to the khalili's fifteen meters by akhfash owsat, historical and structural investigations show that this meter can not be his innovation. this article also attempts to introduce the real innovator of mutadärik meter, whom the author of this article believes to be ibn h...

Consider a politician who has to take two sequential decisions during his term in office. For each decision, the politician faces a trade-off between taking what he believes to be the decision that generates a public benefit, thus increasing his chances of re-election, and taking the decision that increases his private gain but is likely to decrease his chances of re-election. In our results we...

Conventional economics believes that individuals are rational in their decisions based on five factors such as: considering all known options; using the maximum amount of available information; determining precise weight -albeit subjective- costs and potential benefits each option; accurate calculation various possible consequences; common sense factors; seeking to make sensible decisions. Howe...

The article of Marc Jamoulle shows the importance of the contribution of general practitioners (GPs) in improving the quality and the efficiency of the health systems. Starting from the concept of quaternary prevention for reducing excessive costs in the preventive procedures, he suggests a change of paradigm in every daily activity of the GP in order to have a stronger ethical approach to the ...

Problem 7.5. Steve is trying to decide how to invest his wealth in the stock market. He decides to use a probabilistic model for the shares price changes. He believes that, at the end of the day, the change of price Zi of a share of a particular company i is the sum of two components: Xi, due solely to the performance of the company, and the other Y due to investors’ jitter. Assuming that Y is ...

The current solution for efficient high-level parallel programming in the industry is to use directives to the compiler. However these directives pose two problems: first, as their the degree of stringency is not fixed, the compiler writer has no obligation with respect to them, and can only implement them “as he believes is the best”; second, as a result, it is not easy for the programmer to e...