Commentaries on Caulkins et al NUTT ET AL.'S HARM SCALES FOR DRUGS—ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT BUT BETTER POLICY BASED ON SCIENCE WITH LIMITATIONS THAN NO SCIENCE AT ALL FISCHER, BENEDIKT KENDALL, PERRY Pages: 1891 LET NOT THE BEST BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD NUTT, DAVID Pages: 1892 CAN HARM RATINGS BE USEFUL? ROSSOW, INGEBORG Pages: 1893 IMPROVED RANKING OF DRUGS ON HARMFULNESS CAN BRING SENSE AND ORDER...

This work examines the commentaries on Horace’s Odes 1, 4; 4, 7 and 12 composed by Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro,Cristoforo Landino AntonioMancinelli (Horatius cum quatuor commentariis, Venetiis 1492). After a brief overview of Horatian exegetical tradition, we analyze similarities differences in terms content form between ancient scholia Renaissance commentaries. Thus, aim to highlight interpretation...

There is an enormous amount of literature pertaining to the subject of Mohs surgery, ranging from its various indications to therapeutic results. One constant limiting factor in this body of knowledge, however, is the scarcity of randomized, controlled studies comparing Mohs surgery with other effective therapeutic modalities. Obviously, it is hard to gather solid scientific evidence in favor o...

O ne of the obstacles to examining academic proposals for major policy change is the tendency to evaluate them in terms of the current political climate. There is certainly a large discontinuity between the politics of the 1990s and the proposals put forth in the two articles by James Walker and by Edward Zigler and Matia Finn-Stevenson. Both articles call for significant, new, and expensive pu...