Alfred Tarski (1901–1983) is one of the two greatest logicians of the twentieth century, the other being Kurt Gödel (1906–1978). Each began his career in Europe, respectively in Warsaw and Vienna, and came to America shortly before the Second World War. In contrast to the otherworldly Gödel, Tarski was ambitious and practical. He strove for, and succeeded at, building a school of logic at the U...

The Ulster Medical Society, through its Journal, is no stranger to historical papers and treatises. While of considerable interest such pieces are usually descriptive and occasionally hagiographical. Significant personalities are described but rarely " warts and all ". To be fair Dr Robin Harland does not venture on to such territory. His is an unusual but very successful approach to recent med...

Iatrogenic hypoglycemia causes recurrent morbidity in most people with type 1 diabetes and many with type 2 diabetes, and it is sometimes fatal. The barrier of hypoglycemia generally precludes maintenance of euglycemia over a lifetime of diabetes and thus precludes full realization of euglycemia's long-term benefits. While the clinical presentation is often characteristic, particularly for the ...

always been concerned with the performance of democracies, which he sees as an eminently political matter, deeply conditioned by the quality of partisan political competition, but also dependent on the institutional structures superintending governance. His most famous works examine the effects of governmental structures on the extent to which party competition conditions public policies. By an...

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost I want to thank my advisor Ernest Pascarella for his contributions of time, ideas, and guidance during my graduate studies at the University of Iowa. For this dissertation, his mentorship was paramount in providing me scrupulous spirit to scholarship in higher education and student affairs. I would like to thank my committee members: Dr. University of Iowa,...

BACKGROUND TNM staging plays a critical role in the evaluation and management of a range of different types of cancers. The conventional combinatorial approach to the determination of an anatomic stage relies on the identification of distinct tumor (T), node (N), and metastasis (M) classifications to generate a TNM grouping. This process is inherently inefficient due to the need for scrupulous ...

The sixth section, Standardisation of Diagnostic Techniques, deals more specifically with epidemiological method, although these papers are each illustrated by reference to research carried out by their authors. Professor G. M. Carstairs' paper on "Standardisation of psychiatric judgements," regrettably the only contribution in the book that is concerned with the growing field of psychiatric ep...

OBJECTIVE The standard treatment strategy of intracranial aneurysms includes either endovascular coiling or microsurgical clipping. In certain situations such as in giant or dissecting aneurysms, bypass surgery followed by proximal occlusion or trapping of parent artery is required. METHODS The authors assessed the result of extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery in the treatment of...

In a memorable review of Jane Austen’s Emma (1816), Walter Scott cele­ brated the novelist for her faithful representation of the familiar and the commonplace. Austen had, according to Scott, helped to perfect what was fundamentally a new kind of fiction: “the art of copying from nature as she really exists in the common walks of life.” Rather than “the splendid scenes of an imaginary world,” h...

Foreword What a relief to find a bold book with a bold title on a subject most men won't touch with a barge pole! I don't know Mr. Pawson, but surely he is a bold man. He faced the cost of putting his "obsolete and offensive" (his own words) viewpoint into print and went ahead and did it anyway-with scholarly care, with grace and courtesy. I hope and pray that people will read and heed what he ...