Background There is a 10-fold increase in mortality among pregnant women with epilepsy, which greatly exceeds the two to three-fold rate of deaths observed in all people with epilepsy. Risks of uncontrolled convulsive seizures in the mother outweigh potential risk of the medication. The levels of anti epileptic drugs (AEDs) have been shown to reduce during pregnancy. EMPiRE is a randomised cont...

There is a range of evidence that informs us about the organisation of the Achaemenid Empire, but our understanding ofthe eastern-most reaches of the empire, which lie within the bounds of modern-day Pakistan is relatively limited. Whilethere is evidence for the eastern provinces in imperial art and references to them in Achaemenid Royal inscriptions, thearchaeological record in the subcontinen...

The widespread embrace of imperial terminology across the political spectrum during the past three years has not led to an increased level of conceptual or theoretical clarity around the word ‘‘empire.’’ There is also disagreement about whether the United States is itself an empire, and if so, what sort of empire it is; the determinants of its geopolitical stance; and the effects of ‘‘empire as...

In his paper, "Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire," Mario Vrbančić opens up the question of the possibility of a dialectical utopian thinking in postmodernism. Following Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Vrbančić analyses the vampire as the nation looking both at Hardt and Negri's theory of Empire and Žižek psychoanalytically inclined theory of nationalist identification. The vampire always o...

We study the optimal regulation of a monopolist when intrinsic efficiency (intrinsic cost) and empire building tendency (marginal utility of output) are private information, but actual cost (the difference between intrinsic cost and effort level) is observable. This is a problem of multidimensional screening with complementary activities. Results are not only driven by the prior probabilities o...

Nonperiodic tilings of the plane exhibit no translational symmetry. Penrose tilings are a remarkable class of nonperiodic tilings for which the set of prototiles consists of just two shapes. The pentagrid method, introduced by N.G. de Bruijn, allows us to generate Penrose tilings by taking a slice of the integer lattice in five-dimensional space. The empire problem asks: Given a subset of a Pen...

In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Prov ince occupied the entirety of a City , and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Prov ince. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Ge...