A lowest oxygen level acceptable (LOLA) standard should apply to All ages: Reply

Vasopressor administration in spinal cord injury: should we apply a universal standard to all injury patterns?

Does a firm apply a consistent pay standard to all of its workforce ? *

The stability of the inter-firm wage structure across occupations is analysed. Employers define clusters of occupations to whom they apply a similar pay standard. These links between occupations are especially strong at the bottom of the qualification and wage ladders.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

Why kangaroo mother care should be standard for all newborns.

It has been 35 years since Edgar Rey Sanabria responded to the high rate of morbidity and mortality among low-birth-weight (LBW)/preterm newborns in Bogotá, Colombia, with guidelines that have become known as kangaroo mother care.1−4 To address a shortage of incubators and medical personnel, Dr. Sanabria, in a classic case of reverse engineering, analyzed what standard incubator care provided f...

THE APPENDIX, AN ACCEPTABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR ALL SEGMENTS OF BOTH URETERS: A REPORT OF TWO CASES

There are occasional reports of using the appendix to replace sections of the ureters, and to our knowledge, only a couple of them were in the left side. We used the appendix as a ureteral substitute in two cases in technically difficult parts, the upper left ureter and the first part of the right ureter. Follow-ups of8 years and 6 months in right and left side cases, respectively, are imp...

Should We Be Population Pluralists? a Reply to Stegenga

In “‘Population’ is Not a Natural Kind of Kinds,” Jacob Stegenga argues against the claim that the concept of “population” is a natural kind and in favor of conceptual pluralism, ostensibly in response to two papers of mine (Millstein 2009, 2010). Pluralism is often an attractive position in the philosophy of science. It certainly is a live possibility for the concept of population in ecology a...