GOLD VERSUS BRASS

Sympathy or Brass Tacks

as A regional social worker for the Spastics Society I am increasingly aware of the diversity of my clients' needs, their dependence for facilities on specific geographical areas and the way local authorities interpret the statutory provisions. The knowledge that spasticity is irreversible makes an immediate impact. However I try I know I cannot change the status quo and this is the premise on ...

Nicole Brass , Dirk Heckel

With the rapid advances in tumor genetics, an increasing number of amplifications have been identified in various human neoplasms (4). Examples of oncogenes amplified in tumors include N-myc and HER-2/neu, which have been proposed as prognostic markers in neuroblastoma and breast cancer, respectively (5,7). To date, most of the information on the amplification of genes has been gathered from co...

Brass,Hindu-Muslim Violence

Brass Tacks in Linguistic Theory

In the normal course of events, children manifest linguistic competence equivalent to that of adults in just a few years. Children can produce and understand novel sentences, they can judge that certain strings of words are true or false, and so on. Yet experience appears to dramatically underdetermine the competence children so rapidly achieve, even given optimistic assumptions about children’...

“Discordant Airflow Obstruction: GOLD versus LLN”

I recently came across the paper of Lamprecht et al. “Subjects with discordant airways obstruction: lost between spirometric definitions of COPD” which deals with people who are defined as having COPD by the GOLD criteria [1] but not by using a lower limit of normal (LLN) method. The authors found this discordant group had fewer symptoms and less severe FEV1 impairment than those diagnosed with...