This review-essay explores the uses and limits of cost-benefit analysis in the context of environmental protection, focusing on three recent books: Priceless, by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling; Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and A Culture of Precaution, by Adam Burgess; and Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner. The review-essay emphasizes three principal limitations on the ...

The original Shortwave Flux Analysis (SWFA), based on Long and Ackerman (2000) and Long et al. (1999), deals only with daylight shortwave (SW) data. The SWFA algorithm produces continuous estimates of clear-sky downwelling diffuse, direct, and total SW; estimated fractional sky cover; and identification of when the sky was cloudless. This algorithm package is being produced as an Atmospheric Ra...

In this paper we prove that if $X $ is a Banach space, then for every lower semi-continuous bounded below function $f, $ there exists a $left(varphi_1, varphi_2right)$-convex function $g, $ with arbitrarily small norm,  such that $f + g $ attains its strong minimum on $X. $ This result extends some of the  well-known varitional principles as that of Ekeland [On the variational principle,  J. Ma...

The lesion in bone named non-osteogenic fibroma by Jaffe and Lichtenstein in 1942 and later-and more satisfactorily-renamed metaphysial fibrous defect by Hatcher in 1945, has been considered by various authors to be a benign tumour of bone (Jaffe and Lichtenstein I 942), the outcome of a circulatory disturbance (Hatcher 1945, Aegerter and Kirkpatrick 1958), a developmental defect (Cunningham an...

By G. ADOLPH ACKERMAN A RARE and hitherto undescrihed vacuole-like structure has been found within the cytoplasm of certain leukemic cells from seven patiemits with acute leukemia. For descriptive purposes this cytoplasmic structure shall he designated as the granule-vacuole body. It was the purpose of this investigation to study the morphology and cytochemist.ry of this structure and (ompare i...

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Formin Homology 2 Domain Containing 3 Variants Associated With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Eric C. Wooten, PhD; Virginia B. Hebl, MD; Matthew J. Wolf, MD, PhD; Sarah R. Greytak, PhD; Nicole M. Orr, MD; Isabelle Draper, PhD; Jenna E. Calvino, BA; Navin K. Kapur, MD; Martin S. Maron, MD; Iftikhar J. Kullo, MD; Steve R. Ommen, MD; J. Martijn Bos, MD, PhD; Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD; Gordon S. Hu...

N. gonorrhoeae is a species which was originally highly sensitive to penicillin (Cohn and Seijo, 1944; Frisch, 1944; Carpenter, Bahn, Ackerman, and Stokinger, 1945; Lankford, 1945; Meads, Ory, Wilcox, and Finland, 1945; Romansky, 1946; Kenedy and Alfoldy, 1947; Romansky and Robin, 1947; Hughes and Carpenter, 1948; Hawks and Greey, 1948; Cohn, Grunstein, Goldberg, and Crane, 1949; Mills, 1949; S...

D r Ackerman proposes that dermatologists should send all their slides to a dermatopathologist. In my opinion, this is really a scope of practice argument where one subspecialty is arguing that only they should get all the referrals. Dr Ackerman has suggested that his opinion is an ethical point. I would disagree. His point of view that dermatologists are greedy because they do not send all the...