In this article we undertake some conceptual clarification of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, and argue for their utility in contemporary analysis. We consider Foucault’s development of these concepts, and differentiate his view, which is close to ours, from the philosophical take-up of the terms by Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri. Biopower, we suggest, entails one or more truth dis...

Various estimates suggest that potentially life-threatening congenital heart disease is present in approximately 1:1,000 births1-5 (Table 1). Unfortunately this heart disease will go unrecognized in some neonates until symptoms develop. These delayed or missed diagnoses can result in both disability and death. The incidence of a missed diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease can be defin...

This study examined amplitude integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) characteristics in term neonates undergoing treatment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Twenty mothers consented to participate and eight infants with an estimated gestational age ≥37 weeks and undergoing treatment for NAS were placed on aEEG for the first 72 hours of life and then, when possible, for 48 hours every week...

With AD, 36 million individuals are estimated to be affected in 2010 growing to 115 million by 2050 [2]. And AD caregivers in a 2 to 1 ratio add an additional 200 million or so individuals indirectly affected by the disease. These are staggering numbers by any measure — but especially for two diseases with few, if any, effective treatments despite major investments by biopharma over the past tw...

We study the classic cake cutting problem from a mechanism design perspective, in particular focusing on deterministic mechanisms that are strategyproof and fair. We begin by looking at mechanisms that are non-wasteful and primarily show that for even the restricted class of piecewise constant valuations there exists no direct-revelation mechanism that is strategyproof and even approximately pr...

Let C be a binary extremal self-dual doubly-even code of length n ≥ 48. If such a code has an automorphism σ of prime order p ≥ 5 then the number of fixed points in the permutation action on the coordinates is bounded by the number of p-cycles. It turns out that large primes p, i.e. n − p small, occur extremely rarely in Aut(C). Examples are the extended quadratic residue codes. We prove that d...