He came in for a "tune-up." He was 64 years old, with a "history of noncompliance," according to the resident, and he hadn't taken his diabetes or cardiac medications for weeks. We weren't quite sure why. He was alert, he appeared to be intelligent and interested in getting well, and he was able to get his prescriptions filled at a reduced cost. Before he went home, we explained why he needed t...

• Although there is a worldwide surge of interest in conservation, many justifications rest on shaky or ephemeral grounds. • Arguments for conservation of biodiversity often include strong ethical or aesthetic components which are superficially attractive but depend on potentially changeable social circumstances. • Economic justifications based on undiscovered potential are susceptible to chang...

We prove Iqbal’s conjecture on the relationship between the free energy of closed string theory in local toric geometry and the Wess-ZuminoWitten model. This is achieved by first reformulating the calculations of the free energy by localization techniques in terms of suitable Feynman rule, then exploiting a realization of the Feynman rule by free bosons. We also use a formula of Hodge integrals...

In the month of August, 1893, f?ur brothers were admitted into the Bristol Royal Infirmary suffering from more or less continued fevers of obscure nature, though probably of common origin. The clinical histories of the patients will first be given, and subsequently the etiology of the observed conditions discussed. went home well on October 10th. His mother said he was in good health until five...

Though elevated to the dignity of book-form this reprint of Dr. Hare's address to the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association would, in respect of quantity, more fittingly have been issued as a brochure. But, voluminous though it be not, it yet affords food for reflection upon the mutability of fashion in medical treatment. Dr. Hare's experience and knowledge are extensi...

This case involves a 36 year old non-smoker who worked in a factory producing food flavourings for potato crisps. He developed exertional breathlessness associated with fixed airway obstruction shortly after an uncharacteristically high exposure to the food flavouring chemical diacetyl. Unfortunately, even though he was removed from further exposure to this agent, his symptoms and spirometry di...

A patient is reported with pulmonary arterial occlusions and aneurysms and recurrent haemoptysis. He gave a history of recurrent arthropathy and febrile illnesses; though he had had no other features of Behçet's or Hughes-Stovin syndrome his disease probably fell into this broad diagnostic category.

A patient with an ICD accidentally grasped a power line and was electrocuted. He was unable to release the cable during electrocution though he remained conscious. After receiving a shock from his ICD, the powerline was released. ICD interrogation revealed inappropriate detection of alternating current and delivery of a shock.

Peirce introduced an ingenious classification of signs and a theory of reasoning. Though he maintained that reasoning presupposes signs, to our best knowledge, he did not define a link between his two theories. In this paper we make a first attempt to reveal the possibility for such a relation, in the framework of a cognitively based model of

Hitler had a noble purpose (to save the world) and a strong faith in the laws of Nature as he understood Nature. He was, then, a spiritual person, though his spirituality was pathological and destructive. Here, the example of Hitler, his faith, and his spiritual pathology is given to both understand spiritual pathology in general and, through contrast, to understand positive spiritual development.