BACKGROUND Severe problem gambling is most often related to income producing offences such as larceny and embezzlement. In addition, the high rate of relapse to gambling problems and the link between gambling debts and crime have clinical, forensic and penitentiary implications. Considering the data from the literature presented here I decided to form and empirically verify a hypothesis that in...

In this issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Van de Louw et al1 describe the magnitude of spurious hypoxemia as suggested by arterial blood gases (ABGs) obtained from subjects with acute leukemia and hyperleukocytosis. Spurious hypoxemia, commonly known as leukocyte larceny, is just one of several erroneous values or discrepancies with pulse oximetry and the bedside assessment (or bioassay) that may occu...

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Disease in Schoolchildren-Henderson MWIBR JOUL 263 subnormality and were at local health authority training centres, in subnormality hospitals, or at home. And, for good measure, it must be mentioned that in 1965 1,172 girls under the age of 16 years had an illegitimate baby; 190 boys and girls under the age of 16 years were treated at venereal, diseases clinics, but very few of them were known...

Correspondence J. Howell University of Michigan. Department of History 435 South State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003, U.S.A. [email protected] In 1932 the county seat of Macon County, Alabama – the small town of Tuskegee – was one of the poorest towns in the United States. It was (and remains) an area marked by old plantations, sawmills, beautiful forests, and hard-scrabble living for the pre...

The jousting between surgeons and insurance companies over fees can be fierce, and to the outside observer it seems anything but playful. Nevertheless, the insights that surgeons need to prevail in this battle may lie in a branch of theoretical economics called game theory. The word game typically refers to a sport or contest, with the implicit connotation of recreation. The technical definitio...

We present three major transitions that occur on the way to the elaborate and diverse societies of the modern era. Our account links the worlds of social animals such as pigtail macaques and monk parakeets to examples from human history, including 18th Century London and the contemporary online phenomenon of Wikipedia. From the first awareness and use of group-level social facts to the emergenc...

This institution, formerly known as the Reform School for Boys, was established at Lansing in 1856. The governing board consists of three members appointed by the governor for terms of six years. Boys between the ages of ten and sixteen, when convicted of any crime against the statutes not punishable by life imprisonment, are sent to this school, to remain until they are seventeen years of age,...

Statement of Purpose While there is a burgeoning research literature on crime trends, much of the extant research has adopted a relatively narrow approach, efforts across studies are highly variable, and the overall conclusions that can be drawn are ambiguous. In our judgment, one reason for this state of affairs is that the current data infrastructure that supports crime trends research is inc...