Prof. Leslie asks how the variable for TV-newspaper crossownership applies to non-local newspapers. Owners of TV stations that do not own a local newspaper in the same market are not considered to be cross-owned in this analysis, even if they own a national newspaper or a newspaper local to another market. This definition is based on the legal definition of crossownership adopted by the FCC, an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Low doses of ketamine or isomers are promising possibilities for anesthesia and postoperative analgesia. This study aimed at reviewing major properties of low ketamine doses, which may justify their use in anesthesia and postoperative analgesia. CONTENTS Literature suggests that ketamine induces preemptive and preventive postoperative pain relief, decreasing opioid c...

he World Health Organization (WHO) and US agency nd academic partners have established a state-of-thecience system for staying abreast of best contraception vidence. The system is used to update WHO guidance bout who can use specific contraceptive methods safely nd how to safely and effectively use contraceptive ethods deemed appropriate. WHO and many countries ely on this guidance for policies...

Dementia is an umbrella term that encompasses symptoms of a chronic progressive cognitive decline usually affecting memory and almost always judgment, decision-making, and relationships with others. Dementia can be divided into cortical and subcortical forms. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of cortical dementia, as is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In subcortical dementia, structures below the ...

While surgical resection remains a mainstay of the treatment of Crohn’s disease (CD), postoperative recurrence of disease is common. The ideal management of patients after surgery is unclear and varies widely in clinical practice. Both patients and clinicians must weigh the risks and benefits of treatment in reaching a decision. Those at low risk of postoperative recurrence may not need any the...

Taking inspiration from developments in neurocomputational modeling, Paul Churchland develops his positions in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. Concerning the former, Church/and relaxes his eliminativism at various points and seems to endorse a traditional identity account of sensory qualia. Although he remains unsympathetic to folk psychology, he no longer seeks the elimin...

Like a sculptor who can see the form hidden within the block of stone, Sheldon Bach— most recently in his third book on narcissism, Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process—opens our eyes to the underlying structure and dynamics of narcissistic disorders. Bach’s observations and formulations are presented in an accessible, engaging and deceptively simple way, but they reflect...

The motivating thought behind this volume is that " if one wants to " make up the rules " of the game of life, one has to start from a realistic view of its players " (Engelen 2008, 2). This may seem self evident but it is an idea that rarely achieves the prominence which it deserves—not least in methodological debates. For example, much ink has been spilled around Friedman's famous 1953 essay ...

With great interest we have read the review of our book by Bonnie Gold that appeared in the MAA online book review column. It is a serious and professional review and we are glad that she found our book "unique and fascinating" and "a significant contribution to our understanding to mathematics' relation to people." We also deeply appreciate her efforts to understand our work (which is not with...