• none of the classical arguments for treating for Mary in John is easy for Mary to please as a PP are borne out by the full set of relevant data; • there is a set of arguments which point unequivocally to clausal status for for Mary to please; • this analysis however requires that the content description of tough predicates have access to the index specifications of the clausal subject Mary. S...

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The umbilicus can be affected by various skin diseases including metastasis of internal malignancies, at which point it is known as Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule. The authors report a case of Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule as the first sign of internal malignancy and highlight the importance for the dermatologist to recognize the condition.

Mary Lyon discovered X-inactivation — the process that enables female mammals to avoid genetic overdose by randomly switching off one X chromosome in each of their cells — some 40 years ago. In the past 20 years, she has received six awards in recognition of this discovery, including the recently announced Wolf Prize in medicine, worth US$ 100,000. At 71, Lyon will use the award to continue her...

44 SA JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY • September 2006 Cutaneous metastases localised to the umbilicus are named ‘Sister Mary Joseph’s nodules’. Sister Mary Joseph, who was the superintendent nurse and surgical assistant of Dr William Mayo at St. Mayo Hospital from 1856 to 1939, was the first to note the link between umbilical nodules and intra-abdominal malignancies. Metastases to the umbilicus are uncom...

A 95-year-old woman presented with an umbilical mass, pain, and loss of appetite over a three-week period. Physical examination showed a hard nodule protruding through the umbilicus (Picture 1). Computed tomography revealed a nodule at the umbilicus (Picture 2) along with multiple liver metastases. These results led to a diagnosis of a Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule (1). As a result of her advance...

Two arguments are famously held to support the conclusion that consciousness cannot be explained in purely physical or functional terms – hence, that physicalism is false: the modal argument and the knowledge argument. While anti-physicalists appeal to both arguments, this paper argues there is a methodological incoherence in jointly maintaining them: the modal argument supports the possibility...

The author of this book is a retired missionary of the Reformed Church of America. Born in 1903 into a conservative Protestant family of Dutch origin in the American Midwest, she decided on a missionary career at an early age and was one of the first to follow the path through medical school pursued by many women missionaries of the period. After two internships and a year's study of Arabic, sh...