If I don't do it, somebody else will?

"If I can do it I will do it, if I can't, I can't": a study of adaptive self-regulatory strategies following lower limb amputation.

PURPOSE To explore the goal-related strategies employed by people following lower limb amputation using a framework based on the dual-process model of adaptive self-regulation. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 individuals with a lower limb amputation. RESULTS Theoretical thematic analysis identified four broad assimilative/goal pursuit strategies; internal resource ...

Friedman , Harsanyi , Rawls , Boulding – Or Somebody Else ?

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self–concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self–concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of behavior. In the ignorance scenario, subjects became, on average, less inequality–averse as umpires. A wi...

Sleep Faster! (Somebody else needs your blanket...).

One of the elements of the health reform plan, as agreed to by Australian state and federal governments, is to introduce a 4-h National Access Target, to reduce emergency department (ED) waiting times. This article highlights the flawed rationale behind the 4-h rule, the UK experience of this rule and discusses the potential dangers it poses to Australian patients. An alternative solution propo...

The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

Delirium Quantum Or, Where I Will Take Quantum Mechanics If It Will Let Me

Once again, I take advantage of the wonderfully liberal and tolerant mood Andrei Khrennikov sets at his yearly conferences by submitting a nonstandard paper for the proceedings. This pseudo-paper consists of excerpts drawn from two of my samizdats [Quantum States: What the Hell Are They? and Darwinism All the Way Down (and Probabilism All the Way Back Up) ] that I think best summarize what I am...