XI.—Symposium—Can there be Anything Obscure or Implicit in a Mental State?

Value Elicitation Is There Anything in There?

Eliciting people's values is a central pursuit in many areas of the social sciences, including survey research, attitude research, economics, and behavior decision theory. These disciplines differ considerably in the core assumptions they make about the nature of the values that are available for elicitation. These assumptions lead to very different methodological concerns and interpretations, ...

Is There Anything Non-classical?

It is argued that quantum logic and quantum probability theory are fascinating mathematical theories but without any relevance to our real world.

Is there anything good in uric acid?

High uric acid (UA) levels can cause gout, urolithiasis and acute and chronic nephropathy, all of which are due to the deposit of urate crystals. There is also increasing evidence of relationships of hyperuricemia with other important disorders, including hypertension, chronic renal disease, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, as well as an increased mortality, although a causal rela...

Health services research: is there anything to learn from mental health?

Functional genomics and expression profiling: be there or be square.

The manuscript by Hong and colleagues in this issue of the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (1) profiling the downstream genes activated by expression of the tumor suppressor gene, PTEN , represents one of the first papers published in this journal that makes use of complementary DNA (cDNA) microarrays. cDNA microarray analysis is one of the most important new areas th...