according to rawls, lack of information and knowledge behind the veil ofignorance necessitates the existence of primary goods. he outlines severalsubjective and objective reasons to back his argument for the necessity of primarygoods as a fair and neutral element. this article discusses rawls’s argument forsuch necessity while at the same time argues that the “primary goods” listed byrawls prom...

repetitive episodes of brief regional ischemia have been shown to reduce the severity of life-threatening ventricular anhythrnias and infarct size that occur during prolonged occlusion of the coronary artery. this phenomenon is known as ischemic preconditioning. during studies in anesthetized, open chest wistar rats, we accidentally observed that poorly ventilated animals had a reduced severity...

Four media, Lowenstein-Jensen, Middlebrook, Petragnani, and ribonucleic acid, were tested for comparative ability to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Specimens used included sputum, urine, tissue, and gastric washings. Three types of comparison were used: (i) comparison derived from randomized specimens; (ii) comparison of cultures from newly diagnosed cases that had received no prior therapy...

The difference principle, introduced by Rawls (1971, 1993), is generally interpreted as leximin, but this is not how he intended it. Rawls explicitly states that the difference principle requires that aggregate benefits (e.g., average or total) to those in the least advantaged group be given lexical priority over benefits to others, where the least advantaged group includes more than the strict...