Damascus Steel Rediscovered?

Cheating Death in Damascus

Evidential and Causal Decision Theory are the leading contenders as theories of rational action, but both face fatal counterexamples. We present some new counterexamples, including one in which the optimal action is causally dominated. We also present a novel decision theory, Functional Decision Theory (fdt), which simultaneously solves both sets of counterexamples. Instead of considering which...

Buttonhole: an old technique rediscovered.

Infantile Pertussis Rediscovered in China

Immunization against pertussis was introduced in China in the 1960s. Since the 1970s, no culture-confirmed pertussis cases have been reported in the country. We report six infants with culture-confirmed pertussis, who were initially diagnosed as having other respiratory diseases at Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing.

The sinus node electrogram rediscovered.

In 1971 Cramer [1] reported the characteristics of unambiguous measurement of sino-atrial conduction time, unipolar electrograms recorded in vitro from the pacethe identification of pacemaker shifts and the extent to maker region of the rabbit sinus node and subsequently which atrial impulses penetrate the node and act on the published similar records from the sinus pacemaker of the pacemaker. ...

Moraxella catarrhalis - a rediscovered pathogen

Original Article Moraxella catarrhalis lower respiratory tract infection Beta Lactamase and Pneumonia