The central claim that understanding quantum mechanics requires a conscious observer, which is made made by B. Rosenblum and F. Kuttner in their book ”Quantum Enigma: Physics encounters consciousnes”, is shown to be based on various misunderstandings and distortions of the foundations of quantum mechanics.

In this paper we propose a latent variable model, in the spirit of Israilevich and Kuttner (1993), to measure regional manufacturing production. To test the validity of the proposed methodology, we have applied it for those Spanish regions that have a direct quantitative index. The results demonstrate the accuracy of the methodology proposed and show that it can overcome some of the difficultie...

All authors are members of the ventricular assist device resource team at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. Shauna Andrus is assistant nurse manager in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit, mechanical assist device coordinator, and chair of the team. Janet Dubois is assistant nurse manager in the cardiothoracic telemetry unit. Chandra Jansen was a staff nurse in the ...

In the course of studies on the aetiology of rheumatic fever, a number of biopsied rheumatic tissues have been grown in antibiotic-free tissue culture systems, with nonrheumatic tissues as controls. Kuttner (1958) attempted, without success, to demonstrate a viral agent in left atrial appendage grown in media containing antibiotics. Weiss, Florio, and Lewis (1958) grew heart and skin from rheum...

This paper studies three important questions. First, what distinguishes infl ation targeting (IT) from the practices of other central banks? Second, how has IT practice evolved? And third, what is the empirical evidence on IT practice and performance? With regards to the third question, Ken Kuttner focuses particular attention on the issue of whether infl ation-targeting central banks have been...

Three of the papers examine the relationship between financial asset valuations and macroeconomic fundamentals. Hall tries to account for corporate equity valuations using fundamentals such as taxes, risk, and depreciation with mixed results. Bernanke and Kuttner also examine the fundamental determinants of equity prices, but they focus only on monetary policy surprises, which appear to have a ...

Chronic sclerosing sialadenitis, also known as Kuttner tumor, is a chronic inflammatory disease of the salivary glands that is reported in a few cases in medical literature. Recent reports suggest that certain aspects of sclerosing diseases, including chronic sclerosing sialadenitis or dacryoadenitis, should be classified under immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related sclerosing disease based on immuno...

This study compared the effects of tooth extractions under novel painless single tooth anesthesia (STA) and conventional anesthesia on elderly patients with periodontal diseases, and the impact of painless STA on clinical indicators of the patients. Elderly patients (n=116) with periodontal diseases who were treated in Jinan Central Hospital were selected to undergo extraction operation on loos...

This paper develops a generalization of the formulas proposed by Kuttner (2001) and others for purposes of measuring the effects of a change in the federal funds target on Treasury yields of different maturities. The generalization avoids the need to condition on the date of the target change and allows for deviations of the effective fed funds rate from the target as well as gradual learning b...