I argue that the Hole Argument is based on a misleading use of the mathematical formalism of general relativity. If one is attentive to mathematical practice, I will argue, the Hole Argument is blocked.

In this paper we introduce our special thematic section on societal change. We begin by providing an overview of the aims of the section, and how these aims grew out of a need to address conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of societal change. In response to these challenges, the section was intended to provide a forum for theoretical and empirical work from a range of disciplinary ...

There is neither motivation nor need to introduce 'superstatistics.' The authors attempt to generalize the Boltzmann factor so as to obtain a more general statistics, i.e., their so-called superstatistics. The do so by performing a Laplace transform on the probability density function (pdf) of an intensive variable, f (β), where β is the inverse temperature. The criteria they use for choosing f...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a significant public health problem that poses diagnostic dilemma. The changing epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has brought extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) into focus. The diagnosis of EPTB is challenging and more so when it involves deeply located inaccessible area. The protean non-specific presentatio...