On two standard views of vagueness, vagueness as to whether Harry is bald entails that nobody knows whether Harry is bald—either because vagueness is a type of missing truth, and so there is nothing to know, or because vagueness is a type of ignorance, and so even though there is a truth of the matter, nobody can know what that truth is. Vagueness as to whether Harry is bald does entail that no...

In any event, ventilation of the newborn must be realized with an appropriate technique within the period till the achievement of emergency tracheostomy, provision of successful intubation, or wakening of the newborn. Every anesthesiologist should be wellinformed of and familiar with at least one technique for ensuring transtracheal oxygenation in emergencies. It is also important to have the r...

group is not without risk and needs careful monitoring, many patients can take these drugs judiciously for short periods only. We report on a woman whose eclampsia was misdiagnosed. Case report A 35 year old West Indian woman was seen in the casualty department after having four seizures. She was an unmarried mother of one child and was on holiday in the United Kingdom. She was conscious and lu...

The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction betwe...

We study the stability of the O(N) fixed point in three dimensions under perturbations of the cubic type. We address this problem in the three cases N = 2, 3, 4 by using finite size scaling techniques and high precision Monte Carlo simulations. It is well know that there is a critical value 2 < N c < 4 below which the O(N) fixed point is stable and above which the cubic fixed point becomes the ...