Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

BACKGROUND As publishing is essential but competitive for researchers, difficulties in writing and submitting medical articles to biomedical journals are disabling. The DIAzePAM (Difficultés des Auteurs à la Publication d'Articles Médicaux) survey aimed to assess the difficulties experienced by researchers in the AP-HP (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, i.e., Paris Hospitals Board, Franc...

political science at Yale University, conducts research on institutional change, environmental politics, and development. His research has appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Development and Change, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and World Development. His first book was Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community among a Migrant Pastora...

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This paper attempts to understand the culture of collaborative attempts of language academicians who are members of communities of practice who share common professional activities. Participants of these communities of practice engage in a variety forms of collaborative attempts which include knowledge sharing via traditional means; conducting research, team teaching, mentoring, writing books a...

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Computer viruses have evolved from funny artifacts which were crafted mostly to annoy inexperienced users to sophisticated tools for industrial espionage, unsolicited bulk email (ube), piracy and other illicit acts. Despite the steadily increasing number of new malware species, we observe the formation of monophyletic clusters. In this paper, using public available data, we demonstrate the depa...