Competing views on cancer

Reconciling two competing views on contrastiveness

Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. Some people claim that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a different melodic shape. Others, however, maintain that contrastiveness can only be determined by looking at how accents are distributed in an ...

Comparing competing views of analogy making using eye-tracking technology

We used eye-tracking to study the time course of analogical reasoning in adults. We considered proportions of looking times and saccades. The main question was whether or not adults would follow the same search strategies for different types of analogical problems (Scene Analogies vs. Classical A:B:C:D scene version of A:B::C:D). We then compared these results to the predictions of various mode...

Parental views on pediatric vaccination: the impact of competing advocacy coalitions.

The debate on pediatric vaccination policy has been characterized by the presence of two distinct coalitions: those in favor of current vaccination policies and those expressing concern about these policies. The target of these coalitions is the vaccination decision of parents. To determine their influence, we conducted four focus groups in Toronto, Canada examining parental decision-making con...

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Bounds in Competing Risks Models and the War on Cancer

In 1971 President Nixon declared war on cancer. Thirty years later, many have declared the war a failure: the age-adjusted mortality rate from cancer in 2000 was essentially the same as in the early 1970s. Meanwhile the age-adjusted mortality rate from cardiovascular disease fell dramatically. Since the causes underlying cancer and cardiovascular disease are likely to be correlated, the decline...