so slow to grasp the implication of the use of whole blood in World War I, limited though that experience was; why it did not take advantage of the successful bloodprogram used during the Spanish Civil War; and why it did not immediately make use of the British experience in the early months of World War II when the necessity and value of whole blood for combat casualties were so clearly proved...

US Civil War data allow examinations of theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and 40 years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the front was an effective strategy in reducing desertion rates, and that leaders later migrated to the larger cities because this is where their superior skills would hav...

Abstract Over a 5-year program-project, focusing on 4 of the most disabling disorders (i.e. Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorders, Schizophrenia, and Autism Spectrum Disorders), PROPSY’s ambition is to bring solutions for precision medicine in psychiatry. This requires overcoming multiple challenges: (i) discover prognostic stratification biomarkers, (ii) better understand underlying cau...

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders provides the authoritative list of what are considered to be mental disorders. This list has a tremendous impact on research, funding, and treatment, as well as a variety of civil and forensic decisions. The development of this diagnostic manual is an enormous responsibility. Provided herein are lessons...

Decisions about end-of-life care and participation in clinical research for patients with disorders of consciousness begin with diagnostic discernment. Accurately distinguishing between brain states clarifies clinicians' ethical obligations and responsibilities. Central to this effort is the obligation to provide neuropalliative care for patients in the minimally conscious state who can perceiv...

McKean, also served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Ernest Shaw was born in 1873 in Michigan and made his living as an abstractor, that is, one who describes parcels of property for plot maps. Mary McKean was born in 1871 in Minnesota and made her living as a school teacher. They met in North Dakota and were married in Wahpeton in 1904. Mary Shaw was the second of their five ch...

In this paper, we present new structural results about the existence of a subgraph where the degrees of the vertices are pre-specified. Further, we use these results to prove a 16-edge-weighting version of a conjecture by Karoński, Luczak and Thomason, an asymptotic 2-edge-weighting version of the same conjecture, and a 7/8 version of Louigi’s Conjecture.

It appears that for t ≥ 6 the structure of large (t− 1)-connected graphs with no Kt minor is prohibitively complicated. Moreover, for t ≥ 8 the assumption in the above conjecture that |V (G)| is large is also necessary. In fact, Thomason has shown that there exist Θ(t √ log t)-connected graphs with no Kt-minor, but all known examples are bounded in size by a function of t. Thus, the conditions ...