A 54-year-old man developed pigmentation, clubbing, weight loss, oedema, hepatomegaly, lymphadenopathy, cold intolerance, hypotonia and hyporeflexia. Dominant laboratory findings were increased marrow plasma cells with IgA lambda paraproteinaemia, hypothyroidism, hyperprolactinaemia, hyperoestrogenaemia and biopsy-proven peripheral neuropathy. The clinical features and dramatic response to cort...

Mod 24_1. This next question is about the percent of people’s income that they should pay in taxes to the federal government. Which one of the following opinions best agrees with your view? You can just tell me the number of the opinion you choose. One: People who make more money should pay a larger percent of their income in taxes to the government than people who make less money. Two: people ...

The contrast between the predictability of presidential elections and the variability of early polls has come to be viewed as evidence that campaigns provide crucial information to voters. We argue that unmotivated survey respondents offering minimally acceptable answers (i.e., satisficing) offers an additional explanation for the classic conundrum of why the polls vary when the election outcom...

Does campaign duration affect election outcomes? To date, this question has largely evaded political scientists, but it is reasonable to expect systematic links between campaign length and candidate performance in elections. We hypothesize that longer campaigns would help challengers' electoral fortunes, thereby curbing incumbency advantage and potentially boosting competitiveness in elections....