We might visualize a semiotic system that depended, in the absence of the power of speech,, upon the ~pperception by the hu.m,an participants o-f contextually defined logical relations among themselves in space. Let us say: the relative position of each participant to another -in a gathering, and to items in· a fixed environment. The 'elements' of the semiotic would be stated by their existenti...

This paper presents the progicnet programme. It proposes a general framework for probabilistic logic that can guide inference based on both logical and probabilistic input, and it introduces a common calculus for making inferences in the framework. After an introduction to the programme as such, it is illustrated by means of a toy example from psychometrics. It is shown that the framework and c...

Local Labour Systems (LLS) are locations in which places of work and residence come together, made up of two or more towns and have no relations with administration zones. They represent the result of the spatial aggregation of neighbouring municipalities based on the daily commuting flows of local population owing to work reasons. LLS can be thus described as self-contained economic-territoria...

In this issue of the Journal, Coldman et al. report results from the Pan-Canadian Study of Mammography Screening and Mortality from Breast Cancer, an analysis of observational data from seven of 12 provincial screening programs from 1990 to 2009 (1). They find that " participation in mammography screening programs in Canada was associated with substantially reduced breast cancer mortality, " wi...

Illicit transnational flows of goods, money, information, and people – the clandestine side of globalization – have become a growing source of tension and conflict in world politics. Nevertheless, the illicit dimensions of the global economy are largely overlooked in the international political economy (IPE) literature.1 This is evident by surveying the major textbooks, readers, and journals in...

Patients diagnosed with bladder cancer may require a urinary diversion to maximize their health care outcomes. These patients, faced with sudden changes in their health status, develop complex unmet needs that can be addressed by a planned program of education. Peplau's theory of interpersonal relations offers a framework for patient teaching that emphasizes the importance of the nurse-patient ...

We construct a model for FPC, a purely functional, sequential, call-by-value language. The model is built from partial continuous functions, in the style of Plotkin, further constrained to be uniform with respect to a class of logical relations. We prove that the model is fully abstract.

BACKGROUND The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply and demand of medical services. However, little is known about this new workforce entity from the patient's perspective. The objective of this study was to assess the willingne...