Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

In many cases it is under legislative mandate to manage publicly owned forest resources for multiple uses (i.e., timber production, hunting, grazing). Forest resources have some particular characteristics which make rather difficult their management. In fact they are a typical example of a joint production (market and social goods) and therefore every management policy must face tradeoffs betwe...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...

At the 2010 OR Society Simulation Workshop, there was a lively panel discussion entitled “Discrete-event simulation is dead, long live agent-based simulation!” which was subsequently written up as a position paper for the Journal of Simulation. This paper continues that discussion and, to quote Mark Twain, argues that rumours of the death of DES are greatly exaggerated. There has undoubtedly be...

This research examines idiomatic expressions found in the translation of Twain’s ‘The Adventures Huckleberry Finn’ from English into Indonesian; identifies characteristics expressions; and investigates translator’s decision to apply procedures translating equivalence. was data-driven study which focuses on an American novel, The Finn written by Mark Twain (1884/2018) as Source Text (ST) its Ind...

An understanding of the mutational and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the emergence of novel genes is critical to studies of phenotypic and genomic evolution. Here we describe a new example of a recently formed chimeric fusion gene that occurs in Drosophila guanche, D. madeirensis, and D. subobscura. This new gene, which we name Adh-Twain, resulted from an Adh mRNA that retrotransposed into...

We examine stylochronometry, the question of measuring change in linguistic style over time within an authorial canon and in relation to change in language in general use over a contemporaneous period. We take the works of two prolific authors from the 19th/20th century, Henry James and Mark Twain, and identify variables that change for them over time. We present a method of analysis applying r...

Using a unique dataset collected through a well-established survey, which was carried out in China, we examine whether Chinese individuals are prone to money illusion. In contrast to the outcomes for US individuals, we find that the Chinese are more likely to base decisions on the real monetary value of economic transactions. We put these observed differences in findings in perspective by compa...