Global possibilities in intellectual history: a note on practice

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Practice, politics, and possibilities.

Is general practice in trouble? The discipline of general practice has developed at a truly remarkable pace in the 56 years since the Foundation of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Humour me while I pretend that there is a single aggregated measure of the success of a discipline. And humour me even further while I plot this measure against time, starting in the early part of t...

A cautionary note on global recalibration

We report a mathematical result that casts doubt on the possibility of recalibration of probabilities using calibration curves. We then discuss how to interpret this result in the light of behavioral research.

A Note on Global Implicit Function Theorem

We study the boundary behaviour of some certain maximal implicit function. We give estimates of the maximal balls on which some implicit functions are defined and we consider some cases when the implicit function is globally defined. We extend in this way an earlier result from [3] concerning an inequality satisfied by the partial derivatives ∂h ∂x and ∂h ∂y of the map h which verifies the glob...

Protecting Intellectual Property in a Global Environment

Protecting IP in the new global environment requires new information, new thinking and new strategies. While experienced legal counsel should always be sought when making global IP decisions, engineering, marketing, and sales people with limited experience in global IP protection often become involved in such decisions and therefore need to be familiar with key global IP issues. Here, we presen...