astute observer of recognized power. The volume, which is alphabetically arranged, is able and largely suggestive, though occasionally somewhat disappointing. The explanations of the effects of climate as influencing health and producing disease, are everywhere happily and forcibly put. Certainly our author cannot be accused of having blindly followed in the footsteps of others; he never fears ...

Cedric Price was a fervent critic of techno-optimism that relied blindly on technology as the answer to any problem. Luciano Brina delves deeper into figure and his provocative understanding technology. Analyzing visual production for Potteries Thinkbelt (1966) Fun Palace (1961) projects, evinces connection between Price's representational techniques, social political agendas, how they anticipa...

Patients with untreated first schizophrenic episodes and others who had made varying degrees of recovery from such episodes were blindly compared with normal volunteers in terms of the periventricular appearances on spin echo magnetic resonance scans. Significant differences were not found.

Sixty-one Bordetella pertussis isolates were tested blindly in two laboratories to determine their serotype nature by monoclonal antibodies using two independent methods: the standard bacterial microagglutination assay and an indirect whole-cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Both methods gave concordant results in 60 of the 61 isolates.

In a case of congenital absence of the nose, spiral axial CT showed a tiny piriform anterior aperture on the right that ended blindly. Three-dimensional reformation of CT data showed an atretic bony plate, blind-ending right nostril, absent nasal bones, and inferior continuation of the metopic suture. Noncontrast MR findings in the brain were normal.

There are four tests--the likelihood ratio (LR) test, Wald's test, the score test and the exact test--commonly employed in genetic association studies. On comparison of the four tests, we found that Wald's test, popular in genome-wide screens due to its low computational demands, exhibited a paradoxical behaviour in that the test statistic decreased as the effect size of the variant increased, ...

Although Bitcoin is often perceived to be an anonymous currency, research has shown that a user’s Bitcoin transactions can be linked to compromise the user’s anonymity. We present solutions to the anonymity problem for both transactions on Bitcoin’s blockchain and off the blockchain (in so called micropayment channel networks). We use an untrusted third party to issue anonymous vouchers which u...

Background: Intra uterine devices (IUDs) are among the most commonly used contraception methods around the world. The most common form of IUDs used in Iran, is IUD Copper T-380A. As recently there is great emphasis on the role of blood zinc levels on general health conditions, this study was performed to assess the effects of IUD T-380-A insertion on zinc and also copper serum levels. Materials...