In the year 2003 alone, the American Economic Review published 14 articles reporting regression analyses involving individual or family income variables, and the May Papers and Proceedings issue contained almost that many again. In some cases, the income variables were dependent variables; in others, they were regressors used to explain dependent variables ranging from child health in the Unite...

It is not quite true, as one (hostile) commentary has asserted, that Monetarism was developed by “Milton Friedman at the Federal Reserve Board (sic) of St. Louis,” but it is nevertheless the case that the intellectual environment created at this Bank by Homer Jones ensured that the doctrine took root and flourished here when it was very much a minority taste elsewhere.1 And indeed, at least two...

Some biological aspects of semen were investigated in the Persian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus, by determination of seminal plasma indices (ionic composition and osmolality), sperm density and their relationships with sperm motility. The osmolality of seminal plasma ranged from 42.00 to 111.00 mOsmol Kg-1. The concentrations of Sodium (Na+), Potassium (K+), Chloride (Cl-), Calcium (Ca2+) and Ma...

Elevation of the JVP in constrictive pericarditis R.K. Sutherland, K.V. Russell, P.J. Trivedi, C.P. Conlon and R.W. Smith From the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK, Department of Acute General Medicine, Milton Keynes FT Hospital, Standing Way, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK6 5LD, UK, Department of Hepatology, Uni...

Harry Frankfurt’s article, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” triggered a huge literature discussing whether Frankfurt presents a case (or perhaps a template for a case) in which an individual is morally responsible for behavior that he or she could not have avoided.1 In his seminal article (which in a sense goes back to an example originally presented by John Locke in An Essay...

Synopsis: This article reviews the recent advances in the research of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC), a class of microstructurally tailored fiber reinforced cementitious composites. The design basis, the processing routes, and some ECC performance characteristics in structural applications are highlighted. This article is dedicated to Professor Surendra Shah, in honor of his seminal c...