Aims/Objectives Here I would like to present, how I performed first 100 operations as a consultant surgeon without mortality, stroke, re-exploration, deep sternal wound infections or mediastinits. I take this opportunity to share my methodology of case selection and preparation for surgery with the upcoming consultant colleagues and senior trainees who are going to be the future generation of c...

Abstract We explore a particular type of propagandistic message, which we call “provocative insinuation”. For example: ‘Iraqi refugee is convicted in Germany raping and murdering teenage girl’. Although this sentence seems to merely report fact, it also conveys potentially hateful message about Iraqi refugees. look at the argumentative roles that these utterances play public discourse. Specific...

Psychology research from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries, especially the United States, receives more scientific attention than non-WEIRD countries. We investigate one structural way that this inequality might be enacted: mentioning sample's country in article title. Analyzing current publication practice of four leading social psychology journals (Stud...

As can be seen from the title, this article consists of two distinguishable questions: The first, concerns the possibility of defining entropy, and the second, concerns the applicability of the Second Law. In most cases, writers intertwine the two concepts on entropy and the Second Law 1,2 . In fact, most people define the Second Law as “the law of increasing entropy.” 1-2 This is unfortunately...