Descartes' Europe: one good revolution deserves another

In prone ventilation, one good turn deserves another.

The management of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains daunting as we approach a half century since its description.1 Both direct and indirect insults produce acute lung injury, diffuse alveolar damage, and increased vascular permeability, with more severe involvement classified as ARDS.2 Although this suggests homogeneous injury, computed tomography clearly shows heterogeneou...

The battle over self-insured health plans, or "one good loophole deserves another".

Kissing Descartes good bye.

of the approaches used by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and indeed by all therapeutic models that offer a complex package of care – physical therapies, surgery, general practice and family medicine, psychotherapy, psychosomatic treatments, mind-body medicine – cannot be modeled along the lines laid out by the mechanistic paradigm. Not only cannot they be modeled along those line...

Give Me Another One!

We investigate the complexity of an optimization problem in Boolean propositional logic related to information theory: Given a conjunctive formula over a set of relations, find a satisfying assignment with minimal Hamming distance to a given assignment that satisfies the formula (NearestOtherSolution, NOSol). We present a complete classification with respect to the relations admitted in the for...

Another phocine distemper outbreak in Europe.

The seal population of Northern Europe was able to recover from the 1988 phocine distemper epidemic that killed about 18,000 seals. However, starting at the beginning of May 2002, unusually high mortality among harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) was noted on the shores of Anholt, an island off the east coast of Denmark. Since then, 182 of about 900 animals, both adult and juvenile, died with clinica...