The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis.

Seven deadly sins of environmental epidemiology and the virtues of precaution.

The potentials for error in planning, conducting, reporting, and utilizing epidemiologic results can be considered in terms of the traditional 7 deadly sins. To counter these sins, epidemiologic virtues should be inspired by the precautionary principle. The remedies emphasize acknowledgment and exploration of the impact of uncertainties, weight-of-the-evidence assessments that consider what cou...

Acedia: Its Evolution from Deadly Sin to Psychiatric Syndrome.

lohannes Cassianus, more commonly known as John Cassian, wrote his treatise De Institutis Coenobiorumci de OctoPrincipalium Vitiorum Remediis Libri XII around the beginning of the fifth century A.D. This work is important because it introduced certain Eastern ideas into Western thought. Some of these ideas are of considerable psychiatric interest. Cassian first studied with St. Jerome in the Ea...

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Seven Deadly Sins of Contemporary Quantitative Political Analysis∗

A combination of technological change, methodological drift and a certain degree of intellectual sloth and sloppiness, particularly with respect to philosophy of science, has allowed contemporary quantitative political methodology to accumulate a series of highly dysfunctional habits that have rendered a great deal of contemporary research more or less scientifically useless. The cure for this ...

Searching For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Search engines are often used for leisure related search tasks, to find online shops, games, music, movies, celebrity gossip and even sex. While these activities can be broadly considered as entertainment, I shall focus on discussing the different Sexual Information Needs (SINs) of users. This unexplored area of Information Retrieval (IR) research considers a variety of search tasks related to ...