Warning from Soviet psychiatrist on doubtful practices

Soviet Withdrawal from Germany

An early warning on early warning systems!

Doubtful Deviations and Farsighted Play

Nash equilibrium is based on the idea that a strategy profile is stable if no player can benefit from a unilateral deviation. We observe that some locally rational deviations in a strategic form game may not be profitable anymore if one takes into account the possibility of further deviations by the other players. As a solution, we propose the concept of farsighted pre-equilibrium, which takes ...

Measurements of Radiation from a Soviet Warhead

On 5 July 1989, in a remarkable display of military glasnost, a team of us scientists organized by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a team of Soviet scientists from the I. v: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy measured the radiation emitted by the nuclear warhead of a cruise missile aboard the Soviet ship Slavs. The measurements took place in the Black Sea off Yalta. We publi...

Pediatric prescribing practices and the FDA Black-box warning on antidepressants.

BACKGROUND Since the FDA Black box warning in 2004, there has been a 58% drop in antidepressant use among children and adolescents with depression. Paralleling this decrease is an associated increase in completed suicides in youth. To date, no study has examined, on a clinician level, the changes in practice that have occurred subsequent to the FDA warning. OBJECTIVE To examine changes in ped...