ETHAL MIDLINE granuloma and lymphomatoid L granulomatosis are related angiocentric, angiodestructive lymphoproliferative disorders that involve the upper and lower respiratory tracts, respectively. They are both characterized by a heterogeneous infiltrate composed of small lymphocytes, mononuclear phagocytes, plasma cells, occasional eosinophils, and variable numbers of large, atypical lymphoid...

Sooner or later most scientists encounter a problem with ethical overtones. It could be as simple as what data to discard before submitting a paper or a question of authorship, but sometimes the quandary emerges from the very core of an experiment or in the application of newfound know-how to ‘‘advance’’ our society. When I was a post-doctoral fellow, for example, I developed a DNA-based diagno...

Iwas one of the first emergency medicine residents to fall into the clutches of our trauma service. At the time, the surgeons were intrigued and suspicious about this hokey new specialty of emergency medicine; therefore, they scrutinized my every move. Or so I thought. It was the glory days of trauma — the pre-Haldol, pre-sedation, big line, MAST pants era, when RSI meant Really Sweaty Intubati...

In 2016, I had a series of 6 commentaries in this journal on negative secular trends medicine. These were the things thought made it less likely that smartest kids class, people we want to be our physicians, would choose career medicine.1Doroghazi RM Negative medicine: student debt.Am J Med. 2016; 129: 8-10Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (3) Google Scholar, 2Doroghazi high CEO salaries.Am ...

We provide a context semantics for Multiplicative-Additive Linear Logic (MALL), together with proofnets whose reduction preserves semantics, where proofnet reduction is equated with cut-elimination on MALL sequents. The results extend the program of Gonthier, Abadi, and Lévy, who provided a “geometry of optimal λ-reduction” (context semantics) for λ-calculus and Multiplicative-Exponential Linea...

ion, and must sometimes appear to be an unaffordable luxury to a fair portion of the world’s population, irrespective of ideology, tradition, or social status. And yet, while the temptation is to exhort scientific enquiry and design – push on, push as hard, as fast and as far as you can we are obliged also to pause, Ethics, Bio-Ethics and Environment in Healing Designs ....... African Journal o...

Joseph Smith Jr. found himself in court many times throughout his life. Historians argue that problematic relationship with the law began 1826 when he faced disorderly person charges Bainbridge, New York. According to pretrial sources, some of Josiah Stowell's family members charged claimed have supernatural powers: Horace Stowell and Arad used seer stones see lost, stolen, hidden things seek t...

Although explicit references to religion are rare in the marketplace, pictorial representations and rhetoric evocative of religious figures and concepts manifest a unique strategy in contemporary American beer branding. By reflecting societal views, prejudices, and preferences, advertising provides an enclosed narrative of how people think and in turn illustrates the way in which society is str...

A periodic comparison of cultivars is essential to assess selection gains, determine deficiencies, define objectives, and set breeding priorities. Our objective was to assess the progress, or lack thereof, achieved in improving yield, plant type, maturity, and resistance to major bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases of dry bean of the western USA from 1918 to 1998. Twentyfive great northern, p...

ed from each of natural sciences. An analogy is the difference between behavioral sciences (the set of behavioral psychology, behavioral sociology, etc.) and behavioral science as a general concept. The general concept abstracted from natural and social sciences and humanities (including arts) are referred to as knowledge (the modern version of medieval scientia). This chapter mainly or almost ...