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Living in the computer and information age, most people are familiar with the concept of digital information. Computer hard drives and CD’s hold a certain number of bits of information. The stored information can readily be transformed into music, pictures or documents. Information has an objective reality and is deeply connected to fundamental “laws of nature.” Evolution is about the copying a...

osteo-malacia, oven the acute form, developing during pregnancy, may be cured by the injection of adrenalin. This interest in Germany has become so general as to lead to this method of treatment being ordinarily spoken of as the " Bossikur." The interest in the subject has been extended very greatly, during the last few months, by further assertions, of Professor Bossi, based on experimental wo...

This is a very readable book and gives a very reassuring account of life and work in a modern mental hospital. In such a hospital the author spent a period as an observer. The book is of interest to those in the psychiatric professions because it shows the impact of the mental hospital on the lay person who is neither patient nor staff. It is not a profound book but psychiatrists, psychiatric s...

The state of "common unhappiness" presumably regarded by Freud as the end point of the psychoanalytic cure is examined as an ontological conviction reflected in a still-prevailing view of the self as ideally autonomous and fully demarcated from its surround. More recent contributors have envisioned individuation as relationally contingent rather than as essentially solitary. Yet, although more ...

Cure models are survival models basically developed to estimate the proportion of patients cured in a clinical trial. These models estimate the cured proportion and also the probability of survival. Cure models are a special type of survival analysis model where it is assumed that there are a proportion of subjects who will never experience the event and thus the survival curve will eventually ...

Given the challenge of delivering complex, expensive and potentially harmful antiretroviral therapy (ART) on a global level, there is intense interest in the development of short-term, well-tolerated regimens that allow individuals to interrupt therapy indefinitely without experiencing a rebound in viremia. This so-called "cure" or "remission" might be due to complete eradication of all replica...

Symbiosis is a term met by beginning biology students well before they reach college. A dictionary definition includes, "the living together in more or less intimate association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms."' There are two classes of symbiotes-ectosymbiotes and endosymbiotes. Ectosymbiosis is a less controversial topic because the partners are fairly easily separable and ide...