Prevention of postoperative wound infections – what would be worthwhile, and what might be done?

What definition of information would be emancipatory one?

Background and Aim: Human-information interaction, either in every day life or in research approaches, depends on pre-assumptions about “what information is”. Sometimes this pre-assumptions become axiomtic in a way that we must return to primary concerns about them to explore new social phenomenas. Information as an object is one of pre-assumptions. In this paper, the mentioned pre-assumptions ...

Wondering What Might Be

This paper explores the possibility of supplementing the suppositional view of indicative conditionals with a corresponding view of epistemic modals. The most striking feature of the suppositional view consists in its claim that indicative conditionals are to be evaluated by conditional probabilities. On the basis of a natural link between indicative conditionals and epistemic modals, a corresp...

Public health in times of war and famine: what can be done? What should be done?

Inequality – What can be done ?

Prof. Atkinson is one of the most influential authors on inequality. This popular science book consists of 400 pages, divided in three parts: Diagnosis, Proposal for Action and Can It Be Done with 11 chapters. Beside these 11 chapters, there is an Introduction and the final part of the book entitled The Way Forward. At the end of the book, there is Glossary and a long list of the notes for each...

What Is to Be Done*

.-Steps which can be taken in our scattering theory, unification schemes, cos.mology, QED and QCD h h w ic will advance the progress of our scientific revolution are presented. Submitted to Proceedings of the 5th ANPA WEST meeting Ventura Hall, Stanford, Jan. 28-29, 1989 To obtain copies of Proc. ANPA WEST 5 contact E.D.Jones, Editor ANPA WEST, 25 Buena Vista, Mill Valley, CA 94141 * Work suppo...