This short comment on Epstein's (2008) paper and on the response by Thompson and Derr (2008) argues that the symmetry between explanation and prediction cannot satisfactorily be discussed without making clear what prediction means—depending on which connotations the authors have with 'prediction' their arguments can or cannot be accepted. 1.1 Both Epstein (2008) and the authors of response (Tho...

Hepatic encephalopathy is a reversible state of altered cognition that may occur in patients with acute or chronic liver disease or porto-systemic shunt, and in which known neurological or psychiatric signs may develop. Nitrogenated substances from intestinal digestion reach the brain without being cleared by their passage through the liver due to the presence of porto-systemic shunt. We report...

purpose: to report and review a rare variant of duane's syndrome named synergistic divergence and its surgical results. patient and findings: a 16-year-old girl presented with left face turn and reduced vision in both eyes. best corrected vision was od: 3/10 and os: 10/10. there was severe adduction deficiency of the re with simultaneous abduction of the re in left gaze. she had xt= 35 in ...

abstract in order to efficacy evaluation of some new herbicides to control of weeds in corn, a set of field studies were conducted in 2007 at 4 province of iran, including tehran (varamin), khuzestan, fars, and kermansh. treatments were arranged in a rcbd design with four replications. treatments consisted of ultima (nicosulfuron+nimsulfuron), lumax (mesotrion+s-metolacholor+terbuthlazine), ami...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the applicability of GuaragnaSCORE for predicting mortality in patients undergoing heart valve surgery in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery of Pronto Socorro Cardiológico de Pernambuco - PROCAPE, Recife, PE, Brazil. METHODS Retrospective study involving 491 consecutive patients operated between May/2007 and December/2010. The registers conta...

BACKGROUND A comprehensive self-administered diet history questionnaire (DHQ: 150-item semi-quantitative questionnaire) and a brief self-administered DHQ (BDHQ: 58-item fixed-portion-type questionnaire) were developed for assessing Japanese diets. We compared the relative validity of nutrient intake derived from DHQ with that from the BDHQ, using semi-weighed 16-day dietary records (DRs) as ref...

Astonishing revolution in information technology, developments in electronic publishing and availability of manuscript management software's has provided lot of facilities to authors, reviewers as well as editors but it has also given birth to lot of e-problems. This communication highlights some of these e-problems besides discussing the manuscript management system practiced by Pakistan Journ...