Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

was formulated in the 1960s and published worldwide in 1971, it took until the end of the 1990s before its value became clearly apparent, leading to the creation of an entire research field on a priori wire length predictions. Even when the rule itself became quite popular, its inventor, E.F. Rent, stayed in the background: who the man actually was remained a mystery. It was as if Mr. Rent stay...

This review presents a cohesive approach to treating patients with Gaucher disease. The spectrum of the clinical presentation of the disease is broad, yet heretofore there was only one diseasespecific treatment. In the past 2 years, a global shortage of this product has resulted in reassessment of the “one enzyme–one disease–one therapy” mantra. It has also showcased the multiple levels that en...

Medication use is extensive in developed countries: it has been estimated that approximately four fifths of US adults use at least one medication (prescription medicine, over-the-counter (OTC) drug, herbal remedy) per week, and this rate increases with age. A recent US survey reported an average of 2.3 medications prescribed or provided per patient visit. A study carried out in Ireland noted th...

In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for “conjunctive” readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not take into account the interactive reasoning of what else the speaker could have said, and how else the hearer...

ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TASKS CAD users face is the evaluation and comparison of different tools and algorithms. For commercial software purchasers, it is vital to understand how well a given tool does the required job and which of many possible choices is best for the kinds of problems a user will face. For the tool developer, whether in academia or industry, the efficiency of critical algor...

In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for “conjunctive” readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not take into account the interactive reasoning of what else the speaker could have said, and how else the hearer...