ify higher fees for drug companies; however, revamping REMS won’t be the only issue. Pharmacists are concerned about another FDAAA provision: the FDA’s creation of an active Sentinel adverse reaction alert system, meant to supplement its existing passive MedWatch system, which has been roundly criticized for its shortcomings. In fact, both Democrats and Republicans, often at the behest of speci...

Our work focuses on identifying various types of lexical data in large corpora through statistical analysis. In this paper, we present a method for grouping adjectives according to their meaning, as a step towards the automatic identification of adjectival scales. We describe how our system exploits two sources of linguistic knowledge in a corpus to compute a measure of similarity between two a...

Michael Wheeler opens his book with the following half-apology: “striking while the iron is lukewarm is sometimes the best strategy in philosophy” (Preface, p. x). He is referring to the fact that the main task of this book—to ferret out and critically assess the Cartesian legacy in contemporary cognitive science, replacing it (or at least altering it to better conform) with a philosophy of min...

The ISO 14001 voluntary international environmental management standard, mostly used in the manufacturing industry, could be used in agricultural settings to increase quality of environmental management and decrease risk of environmental problems. Associated benefits might include reduced operating costs, increased competitiveness, and circumvention of future trade barriers. To see whether expe...

Where do partisans get their election news, and does news consumption influence their candidate assessments? To shed light on these questions, we track the web browsing behavior of a national sample during the 2016 presidential campaign and then merge these data with a panel survey administered in August and November. We find that exposure to election news is polarized; partisans gravitate to “...

S urgical treatment of coccidioidomycosis is recognized as a proved method of curative therapy. However, there is not universal agreement as to the specific method of management. The decision regarding management is made on personal experience and judgment and this varies with the individual surgeon. In general, the division on methodology hinges on an opinion regarding administration of amphot...

A week before the lockdown I have to stay at home my head still full of touch and smell bodies be drawn a paper world some time think sketch chew bones what is this dread sound? choke? white? black? smoke? her rattling breath blows lukewarm air we hold on cheek she slips flies flesh thing soon there no more car train bus plane find way * brush nearby coughs silently takes me by hand grip squeez...

The growth and development of academic nursing is being hampered, if not sabotaged, by our very own mandarins of mediocrity. These are the academic ‘leaders’ whose own slender scholarship and contribution to nursing is out of all proportion to the stifling and inhibiting influence that they wield. Our focus is on nursing academe in the UK and Australia (although our New Zealand colleagues may a...

Almost two decades into the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios of 500+ per 100 000 live births still being the rule rather than the exception in sub-Saharan Africa are no reason to celebrate (AbouZahr & Wardlaw 2003). Lukewarm political commitment, inadequate resource prioritization, competition between international agencies, major technical difficulties to accurately measur...