An active area of public health policy in the United States is policy meant to promote healthy eating, reduce overconsumption of food, and prevent overweight/obesity. Public discussion of such obesity prevention policies includes intense ethical disagreement. We suggest that some ethical disagreements about obesity prevention policies can be seen as rooted in a common concern with equality or w...

We survey the generalized Baues problem of Billera and Sturmfels. The problem is one of discrete geometry and topology, and asks about the topology of the set of subdivisions of a certain kind of a convex polytope. Along with a discussion of most of the known results, we survey the motivation for the problem and its relation to triangulations, zonotopal tilings, monotone paths in linear program...

which underlie the restoration of nerve fibers by the anodal current (cf. ref. 6, chap. XIII). A certain periodicity of the variations of threshold appears in curve V (Fig. 5), the period corresponding approximately to internodal lengths. The question, however, must be left open whether such a periodicity was coincidental or was due to the fact that with the nerve fiber in a certain state the a...

Orthopnea is a common complaint in patients with chronic cardiac decompensation. The frequent association of orthopnea and pulmonary congestion has properly led many authors to regard congestion of the lungs as an important factor in the genesis of dyspnea in the recumbent position, the symptom being favorably modified in the upright position. There has, however, been no general agreement regar...

The Human Genome Project was created with the ultimate goal of improving human health. Since its inception, the majority of funding has gone to the development of technologies and the creation of massive data sets. The applications of the Human Genome Project have been slow in developing. On July 26, 2000 a press conference at the Whitehouse proclaimed the success of the Human Genome Project. H...