This is in response to the article “Cancer-related fatigue: a review”, published in April 2011 by Campos et al.1. We have a few concerns regarding certain statements made by the authors. The advances in oncology have rendered cancer from a universally lethal disease to a chronic condition for many and a curable illness for a few. Hence, the potential long-term adverse effects of supportive care...

Finite element analyses generally require large amounts of input data. The preparation of this data should be as easy as possible and should leave little room for error. In keeping with these concerns, the input associated with the APES computer program has been designed for ease of use, flexibility, and consistency. Further details regarding the program input are given in the subsequent sectio...

I argue that the Hole Argument is based on a misleading use of the mathematical formalism of general relativity. If one is attentive to mathematical practice, I will argue, the Hole Argument is blocked.

In this paper we introduce our special thematic section on societal change. We begin by providing an overview of the aims of the section, and how these aims grew out of a need to address conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of societal change. In response to these challenges, the section was intended to provide a forum for theoretical and empirical work from a range of disciplinary ...

There is neither motivation nor need to introduce 'superstatistics.' The authors attempt to generalize the Boltzmann factor so as to obtain a more general statistics, i.e., their so-called superstatistics. The do so by performing a Laplace transform on the probability density function (pdf) of an intensive variable, f (β), where β is the inverse temperature. The criteria they use for choosing f...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a significant public health problem that poses diagnostic dilemma. The changing epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) due to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has brought extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) into focus. The diagnosis of EPTB is challenging and more so when it involves deeply located inaccessible area. The protean non-specific presentatio...