Thiazides: do they kill?

Thiazides: do they kill?

In 2000 and 2002 after the ALLHAT-study had been published [1,2] there was a paradigm shift in the use of thiazides. ALLHAT was a study of cardiovascular endpoints in relation to different antihypertensive treatments in 33 357 hypertensive patients observed over an average of 4.9 years. The study [1,2] found no differences between the three treatment groups [diuretics in the form of chlorthalid...

Universal Grammar and Chaos/Complexity Theory: Where Do They Meet And Where Do They Cross?

  Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...

Do Not Kill Unfeasible Individuals

Any implementation of an evolutionary algorithm for a particular problem must address several important issues; these include genetic representation of solutions to the problem and genetic operators that would alter the genetic composition of offspring during the reproduction process. However, very often (in the presence of nontrivial, problem-specific constraints) it is also necessary to devel...

Do genes allow inflammation to kill or not to kill?

Do speakers realize the prosodic structure they say they do?

In this paper we describe a study in which a comparison was made between prosodic structures as realized in a spoken version of a text and as assigned by annotators of this text on paper. The prosodic structures were assigned by experts. This study puts to test the strategy of annotating text on paper to obtain a HUMAN reference of the prosodic structure that would be assigned when reading text...