Justice Rutledge's Appendix

Does the Appendix Location Change During Pregnancy?

Background: Early diagnosis of appendicitis is important during pregnancy.  Unlike omentom, cecum and appendix are not likely to be displaced by the growing uterus, so the concept of position change of the appendix during pregnancy is questionable. Objective: To determine the anatomical location of appendix during pregnancy. Methods: In a prospective study from October 1995 to March 1999, 291 w...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Distributive Justice in Pharmaceutical Torts: Justice Where Justice Is Due?

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

Formal Appendix

This note provides formal derivations of claims made in “The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds” (Chapter 8 of Escaping the Resource Curse, New York: Columbia University Press). We provide a two period model in in which two individuals take turns in dividing a non-renewable asset. The problem is analogous to that facing countries endowed with a natural resource or other fund. Insecurit...

Appendix 4

Often one is faced with interpreting a list of p values from tests of hypotheses, either from a set of independent experiments all testing the same hypothesis or from a single experiment wherein a large number of different hypotheses are tested. Both of these are examples of multiple comparisons. In the former setting, the problem is to how best combine these independent p values into a single ...