context inherited and sporadic medullary thyroid cancer (mtc) is an uncommon and medically challenging malignancy. even if the extent of initial surgery is deemed adequate, the recurrence rate remains high, up to 50% in most series. measurement of serum calcitonin is important in the follow-up of patients with mtc, and reliably reflects the existence of the disease. evidence acquisition there i...

The Problem of Old Evidence (POE) states that Bayesian confirmation theory cannot explain why a H can be confirmed by piece evidence E already known. Different dimensions POE have been highlighted. Here, I consider the dynamic and static dimension. In former, we want to how discovery accounts for confirms H. latter, understand is will reason prefer over its competitors. aim paper twofold. First...

We study house allocation problems introduced by Shapley and Scarf (1974). We prove that a mechanism (a social choice function) is individually rational, anonymous, strategy-proof, and non-bossy (but not necessarily Pareto efficient) if and only if it is either the core mechanism or the no-trade mechanism, where the no-trade mechanism is the one that selects the initial allocation for each prof...

The National Outlook Movement (Millî Görüş), a prominent Turkish-Islamist movement which previously held strong anti-Western views, moderated its views towards the West in 1990s. With an examination of Millî Görüş documents from 1973 to 1995, this study sheds light on dynamics shift view and argues that one aspect ‘tilt’ was geopolitical realities – mainly collapse USSR rise US hegemony. While ...