We are being myopic about myopia control

lasik retreatment for myopia and myopic astigmatism

purpose: to evaluate the results of laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) retreatment in  patients with postoperative regression. methods: in a retrospective interventional case series, 153 eyes of 113 patients who had undergone lasik retreatment for postoperative regression were evaluated. both initial lasik and retreatment were performed with a nidek: ec 5000 excimer laser, and flap was made w...

Are we wrong about representation?

In his recent book, The Elm and The Expert (1994), Jerry Fodor opens with a rather puzzling remark: “It may be that I have gotten myself into a philosophical situation about which all that can helpfully be said is that I ought not to have gotten myself into it” (p.1). Fodor is referring to what is a paradoxical and deep problem in his theory concerning the relations between representational con...

Are we being seduced by a robot?

Chondroprotective agents: are we being too dogmatic?

Recent major guidelines to osteoarthritis treatment have ceased to recommend the use of chondroprotective drugs; this new standing is based on new data, but comes mostly from a reassessment of existing information through methods of evidence-based medicine; these were more rigorous, with significant changes in the search and inclusion criteria, minimum follow-up requirement and the use of the c...

What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It

In view of the relationships between theoretical, computational and corpus linguistics, their mutual contributions are discussed and illustrated on the issue of the aspect of language related to the information structure of the sentence, distinguishing ”what we are talking about” and ”what we are saying about it”.