I’m a regular guy. I like sports, particularly football. I enjoy action movies and silly sitcoms. Occasionally I watch cartoons, giggling like a kid at the antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam. I’d like to posthumously punish whoever invented suits and ties. When I visit McDonald’s and Wendy’s, I don’t order the salads. If you give the remote to me, I won’t return it until I flip ...

The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians, of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do not include health or normality (rather the contrary), it is questionable who, if anyone, profits from its indiscriminate use--and its use, even, at all.

Despite argu ments p u t forward in L eprosy R eview ( 1 9 7 2 ) 4 3 , 691 0 5 , t here is a case for retaining the subsfa nce of current term inology related to leprosy , part i cularly because of it s va lue to fund-raising. I n any eve n t , t h e p u b lic will not co-ope ra te in the adoption of new te rm inology , bu t find a vital role for t he l inguist ic associations of leprosy . Ackn...

This paper is an analytical literature review on the dilemma of error-tolerance (ET) in IC manufacturing industry. The ET has a vast definition in research but, we mainly fuscous on the result acceptability of the the chips that generate erroneous outputs to increase the yield. The source of these errors is fabrication process (process variation or defects). The idea lies behind this question, ...

We have reviewed the literature data regarding the spectrum of tumors including solitary fibrous tumor and hemangiopericytoma with special focus on definition of the disease, discussion of the criteria for malignancy, and the key elements of standard treatment of localized disease. We have discussed the emerging concepts on the tumor biology and the different systemic treatments (chemotherapy a...

BACKGROUND The Program for All-inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) has been hailed as successful but of limited appeal. This study contrasts the effects on hospital utilization of PACE and a more liberal variant, the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP). METHODS Hospital and emergency room (ER) utilization data from two sites that used both PACE and WPP to serve elderly clients were compared....

Water retention and hydremia have attracted considerable attention in the last decade. In 1921 Miller and Williams (1) reported observations on three patients with hypertension and nephritis who were given 5 to 10 liters of water in 24 hours by Rehfuss tube. Two of these patients developed headache, dizziness, general depression, increased blood pressure and cramps in the legs. The third patien...

Abst rac t . The role of perception and action in current AI systems is analyzed and some points concerning present AI methodologies are discussed. It is argued that if we accept as a central goal for AI to build artificial systems that behave in an intelligent way in the real world, then additional evaluation criteria for intelligent systems should be used. Finally, some of these criteria are ...