background: the kaufman assessment battery for children 2 nd edition (kabc-ii) is an individually administered measure of the processing and cognitive abilities of children and adolescents aged 3 through 18. it is for assessing neurological, psychoeducational, clinical and psychological aspects of all the pre-school and high-school levels. this is a theory-based clinical instrument that contrib...

Iron is unique among inorganic nutriments because primary control of body homeostasis resides with absorption, not with excretion (1). However, the pathway by which iron is transported in the gut is not necessarily unique; it may be shared with cations whose absorption waxes and wanes in parallel with that of iron, but whose total body balance is maintained by ready excretion. The question of w...

We discuss similarities between midutterance self-correction, which is often seen as a phenomenon that lies outside the scope of theories of dialogue meaning, and other discourse phenomena, and argue that an approach that captures these similarities is desirable. We then provide a sketch of such an approach, using Ginzburg’s KoS formalism, and discuss the implications of including ‘sub-utteranc...

Jay Kaufman has attempted to provide a scholarly assessment of pitfalls in attempting to assign the cause of disease outcomes to apparent racial differences (Kaufman, 2008). Apart from a number of factual errors in his arguments, he has continued to follow the same path as other authors, whom he appears to deride, in misinterpreting the conclusions of our 2001 paper, ‘‘Lesser response to angiot...

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) can be solved by linearization, where one formulates the QAP as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. On the one hand, most of these linearization are tight, but hardly exploited within a reasonable computing time because of their size. On the other hand, Kaufman and Broeckx formulation [1] is the smallest of these linearizations, but very wea...