In this paper I will defend the view that, according to Locke, secondary qualities are dispositions produce sensations in us. Although is widely attributed interpretation needs defending for two reasons. First, commentators often assume that dispositional properties because Locke calls them “powers” sensations. However, primary also powers, so powers locution insufficient grounds justifying dis...

As a participating national lab in the inter-institutional effort to resolve performance issues of the non-elutable ion exchange technology for Cs extraction, we have carried out a series of characterization studies of UOP IONSIV IE-911 and its component parts. IE-911 is a bound form (zirconium hydroxide-binder) of crystalline silicotitanate (CST) ion exchanger. The crystalline silicotitanate r...

Cerebrovascular complications occur in 25%–70% of patients with infective endocarditis (IE). Among these complications, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage and cerebral abscess are frequently seen usually the consequence vegetation embolization or ruptured infectious (mycotic) aneurysm. Acute subdural hematoma (ASDH) is a very rare complication IE due to multiple septic brain embolisms. P...

Primary quality theories of color claim that colors are intrinsic, objective, mind-independent properties of external objects — that colors, like size and shape, are examples of the sort of properties moderns such as Boyle and Locke called primary qualities of body. Primary quality theories have long been seen as one of the main philosophical options for understanding the nature of color. Howev...

TO THE EDITOR—We read with great interest the article by Bouza and colleagues on enterococcal bacteremia and the NOVA (Number of positive blood cultures, Origin of the bacteremia, previous Valve disease, Auscultation of heart murmur) score. The authors proposed a simple clinical score to rule out infective endocarditis (IE) among patients with enterococcal bloodstream infection and thus reduce ...

Recent case studies on European economies have analysed the evolution of aggregate series for government expenditure on education and its relation to cyclical economic growth in the long run. These studies have depicted two different patterns in that relationship. In the case of highly developed economies, namely France, Germany and Great Britain, the evolution of public expenditure on educatio...

this paper argues for acceptance of digniry as a concept that ne use to describe an aggregate ef values and qualities of someone or something that deserve esteem and respect. the primary value that creates the nght to have dzgniry is life. the degree of dzgniry according to a particular life form depends on its place in the evolutionary scale. human beings are the hzghestform ef life so thry po...