milton friedman’s seminal article, “methodology of positive economics”, is one of the most important and contentious works ever been discussed within the realm of economic methodology. in this article, on the basis of an instrumentalist approach to the nature of theorizing, friedman declares the tenets of positive economics, and in this vein, he professes his disputable doctrine about “unrealis...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 21(6); December 2014 Address correspondence to Dr. Jay D. Raman, Division of Urology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, c4830b, Hershey, PA 17036 USA Considerations regarding active surveillance for small renal masses Jay D. Raman, MD Division of Urology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 23(1); February 2016 Address correspondence to Dr. Jay D. Raman, Department of Urology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, BMR c4830F, Hershey, PA 17033 USA Prognostic markers for urologic cancers Jay D. Raman, MD Department of Urology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA Referring to the ar...

This editorial is to thank, on behalf of the entire board f the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia ABHH), Milton Arthur Ruiz, former president of the Sociedade rasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (SBHH) and memer of the Deliberative Board of the ABHH, for his magnificent ork as Editor-in-Chief of our journal, the Revista Brasileira de ematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH). I am of ...

The first major encounter of non-trivial mathematics and non-trivial music was in the conception and development of the twelve-tone system from the 1920s to the present. Although the twelve-tone system was formulated by Arnold Schoenberg, it was Milton Babbitt whose ample but non-professional background in mathematics made it possible for him to identify the links between the music of the secon...

I n economics as in anthropology, old artifacts spur continuing debates. A case in point is Knut Wicksell’s celebrated 1898 analysis of the cumulative process of price inflation in pure credit, cashless economies. Some economists view Wicksell’s model as a milestone in the evolution of quantitytheoretic monetary analysis inasmuch as it constitutes the seminal rigorous explanation of how loan-cr...

semen hyperviscosity (shv) is one of the factors involved in deficiency in sperm function. this research aimed to evaluate seminal plasma total antioxidant capacity (tac) and malondialdehyde (mda) levels in infertile patients with hyperviscous and non-hyperviscous semen samples to understand whether hyperviscous semen is associated with oxidative damage in infertile subjects. in this cross sect...