Closing the Oval Door

Closing the Oval Door.

A s is widely appreciated by all medical and surgical specialties, atrial fibrillation is the most common significant cardiac arrhythmia seen in practice; approximately 5 to 7 million patients in the United States have atrial fibrillation, with the numbers expected to increase to approximately 16 million by 2050 (1), and there are 200,000 to 250,000 new cases each year. Although symptoms vary w...

Closing the revolving door for OR staff.

Closing the Door on Einstein and Bohr’s Quantum Debate

by Alain Aspect∗ I n 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen (EPR) wrote a now famous paper questioning the completeness of the formalism of quantum mechanics. Rejecting the idea that a measurement on one particle in an entangled pair could affect the state of the other—distant—particle, they concluded that one must complete the quantum formalism in order to get a reasonable, “l...

Closing the door on illicit tobacco trade, opens the way to better tobacco control.

379 1Project Manager, Department of Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2Technical Officer (Legal), WHO Framework Convention Tobacco Control Secretariat, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 3Regional Adviser, Tobacco Free Initiative, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Regional Offic...

Closing the door to cloud-cuckoo land: a reply to Šešelja and Straßer

Šešelja and Straßer’s critique fails to hit its target for two main reasons. First, the argument is not that Kuhn is a rationalist because he is a coherentist. Although Kuhn can be taken as a rationalist because of his commitment to epistemic values, coherence analysis provides a more comprehensive characterisation of cognitive process in scientific change than any of these values alone can off...