© 2016 Ihde et al. Open Access This article is International License (http://creativecommons reproduction in any medium, provided you g the Creative Commons license, and indicate if (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ze Author details The Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center®, Hackensack University Medical Center, 30 Prospect Ave, Research Building, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA. Departme...

The prudent peasant mitigated the risk of crop failures by scattering his arable land throughout his village, Deirdre McCloskey argued, because alternative risksharing institutions did not exist. But, alternatives did exist, this essay concludes. Medieval English peasants formed two types of farmers’ cooperatives. Fraternities protected members from the perils of everyday life. Customary poor l...

I present a review and extended discussion of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented upon. For this review, I draw upon several other works on statistics and my personal experiences as a teach...

Paolo Silvestri interviews Deirdre Nansen McCloskey on the occasion of her latest book, Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science (2021). The interview covers personal intellectual life, main turning points journey contributions. More specifically, conversation focuses McCloskey’s writings methodology rhetoric economics, interdisciplinary ventures into humanities, Bourg...

Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant syndrome that can be subdivided into Lynch syndrome I, or site-specific colonic cancer, and Lynch syndrome II, or extracolonic cancers, particularly carcinomas of the stomach, endometrium, biliary and pancreatic systems, and urinary tract. Lynch syndrome is associated with point mutations and large rearrangements in DNA MisMatch Repair (MMR) genes. This s...

Background With a population of approximately 4.380 million people and an estimated Lynch syndrome mutation prevalence of 1/531, there are an expected 8000 individuals with Lynch syndrome in British Columbia. The Hereditary Cancer Program (HCP) of the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) has provided clinical testing for Lynch syndrome since 2004 to patients across the province. Currently, there are approxi...

Shauna L. Price, Takahiro Murakami, Ulrich G. Mueller , Ted R. Schultz, and Cameron R. Currie 4 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, e-mail: [email protected] (T.M.), [email protected] (S.L.P.), [email protected] (C.R.C.) 2 Department of Systematic Biology, MRC 188, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-...

was provided by Sheri Meland, Shauna Morimoto, and Sara Wakefield (University of Wisconsin) and Christine Schwartz (UCLA). Administrative data used were constructed under the supervision of Patricia Brown, CSDE Data Manager; survey data are from the Survey of Wisconsin Works Families, Margaret Krecker, Survey Manager. Steven Cook provided expert help with administrative data on child support pa...