dpearl('Iitsa.LcsffcduL A story is told in China about a peasant who had worked as a maintenance man in a newly established Western missionary hospital. When he retired to his remote home village, he took with him some hypodermic needles and lots of antibiotics. Heput up a shingle, and wheneversomeone came to him with a fever, he injected the patient with the wonder drugs. A remarkable percenta...

Juan Comesana considers some recent proposals regarding the relation between knowledge and subjunctive conditionals, including those by Dretske and Nozick recommending a " sensitivity " condition on knowledge, and by Sosa recommending a " safety " condition. Comesana raises problems for each of the positions he considers, and at the end of the paper he expresses pessimism about the prospects fo...

A LTHOUGH A FAIRLY EXTENSIVE literature exists on how psychiatrists develop professionally,‘-g three important areas remain inadequately documented. First, doubts remain about the ideologic orientation of residents toward psychiatry. Second, how psychiatry residents perceive the value of various treatment modalities used in psychiatry is essentially undetermined. Third, the actual experience th...

The aim of this work is to assess the performance of a maintenance policy when a stochastic model of the life of the component of interest is known, but relies on parameters that are imprecisely known, and only through information elicited from experts. The case in which the information used to feed the model comes from a single expert has been investigated by the authors in a previous work. Th...

An elderly male patient presented with complains of bone pain lower backache and on initial investigation was found to be mildly anaemic raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C reactive protein, mild hypercalcemia serum creatinine levels. On imaging studies multiple bony lytic lesions were seen predominantly in axial skeleton. A provisional diagnosis myeloma made he further investigated for M ...

Alice is a charismatic quantum cryptographer who believes her parties are unmissable; Bob is a glamorous string theorist who believes he is an indispensable guest. To prevent possibly traumatic collisions of self-perception and reality, their social code requires that decisions about invitation or acceptance be made via a cryptographically secure variable bias coin toss (VBCT). This generates a...

When making judgments, one may encounter not the appearance of a candidate into consideration, even only justifiable factors, i.e., attributes which the judge though she may want to hire the better-looking candithinks that he/she should take into consideration, but date. In this article, we distinguish between two types also unjustifiable factors, i.e., attributes which the of factors: (a) fact...

Shared psychotic disorder develops in an individual in the context of a close relationship with another one who has an established delusion that he/she also believes. It is classified within paranoid disorder. Herein, we present a case of two sisters with their mother. The elder sister was the origin of paranoid delusion. Her delusion was with a dentist who tries his best to prevent her for mar...

performing intestinal anastomosis; he believes that they have served their purpose -and their interest is now mainly historical. This may be so to a surgeon of Mr. Moynihan\s experience but to take only one example Murphy's button is still being largely used by a number of surgeons and will probably continue to be employed for some considerable time to come. The extent of the book is limited to...

This article is the beginning of a new section entitled Engineering and Science by Art where the emphasis will be on Chemical Engineering. It applies to an approach developed by the author where subjects related to engineering and sciences are demonstrated by artworks. This makes the subjects more understandable and easy to percept. After studying the articles written by the author, he believes...