Outlays for health care in the nation reached $212.2 billion in calender year 1979--12.5 percent higher than in 1978, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Health Care Financing Administration. This estimate represented $943 per person in the United States and was equal to 9.0 percent of the Gross National Product. This latest report in the annual series representing national health ...

The concept of body constitution first appeared in Matiegka (1921), who suggested quantification of body components on the basis of body’s external dimensions. Since Matiegka, a whole range of other methods for body constitution assessment based on anthropometrical dimensions has been developed. Fat is the main factor of inter-intraindividual variability of the body’s constitution during an ent...

Musical Platonists identify musical works with abstract sound structures but this implies that they are not created but only discovered. Jerrold Levinson adapts Platonism to allow for creation by identifying musical works with indicated sound structures. In this paper I explore the similarities between Levinson’s view and Kit Fine’s theory of qua objects. Fine offers the theory of qua objects a...