Erwin D. Canham, Editor in Chief of the Christian Science Monitor, will speak on "A Meeting Ground with Youth," Thursday, February 18, in the Rice University Memorial Chapel. He describes his talk as "a distillation of my service on the President's Commission (on Campus Unrest) brought up to date." Canham's talk, open to the public without dharge, is part of the Chapel Lecture Series. It is sch...

We extend a propositions-as-types correspondence between linear logic and session types to include recursive sessions. Our extension takes least and greatest fixed points as dual, an idea well-known to theorists, but which has not previously appeared in the treatment of recursive sessions. We preserve the freedom from races, deadlock, and livelock that is a hallmark of the propositions-as-types...

Danes rebounded after Wednesday's Pittsburgh loss lo beat Oswego before a small crowd.

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Research describing healthcare professionals' conversations about issues of dying and death with chronically ill geriatric patients is rare, especially in Europe. The study reviews the willingness and difficulties of physicians and nurses to speak about dying and death with geriatric patients. METHOD Interview study with 14 physicians and 17 nurses. RESULTS The majorit...

This paper argues that the standard etymology of Vedic brav i ‘to say, to speak, tell’ from Proto-Indo-European * mleu ̯ h 2 - speak’ (and its connection with Avestan mrao speak’) cannot be upheld, since it is based on an irregular consonant change independently motivated and explained. As alternative, two different PIE verbal roots will proposed, melH-u → H bleu 2/3 -‘to speak or call’, provide...

Knowledge of the knowledge of labor for sale To speak of the commercialization of epistemology is to speak of the commodification of knowledge about knowledge. To speak of the construction of knowledge about knowledge is to invoke the convergence of interests around the object that this ‘knowledge about’ constructs. 4 The configuration of interests makes this object, and the object so made hold...

Leroy and colleagues report on the accuracy of the Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation Prognostic Model ('ProVent') in a cohort study of patients ventilated for at least 21 days in one of three hospitals in the north of France. This study is noteworthy because it is the first to describe the performance of the ProVent model both outside the US and in a community hospital-based setting.

This work was supported in part by the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.casos.ece.cmu.edu ), the National Science Foundation Grant No. ITR/IM IIS-0081219 and an NSF Dissertation Grant on Organizational Isomorphism. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpr...

As U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins stated in recent testimony to Congress, “Our nation has never witnessed a time of greater promise for advances in medicine.” Researchers are moving closer to developing a universal flu vaccine, cancer immunotherapy (harnessing the immune system to attack tumor cells) is on the horizon, and the public/private BRAIN initiative w...