Two optimistic traditions in the dismal science: rationalism and the "invisible hand"

This paper explores two traditions of optimism in economics. In one of these traditions optimism is based on the comprehension of a spontaneous (and often progressive) order in a decentralised (or market) economy – what I will call the optimism of the “invisible hand”. Against the optimism of the invisible hand stands another optimistic tradition in economics, whereby we might take courage from our ability to do right by society through instructing governments with the keen edge of our most enlightened plans. This tradition is called “constructivist rationalism” here. The paper explores the logic of each tradition and their historical development and applies both to a recent example of policy making in South Africa: government’s fundamental regulatory overhaul of the pharmaceutical industry based on the Medicines Act of 1997, specifically, the decision to implement price controls on medicines.Spontaneous order, Modernism, Planning, Optimism, Information, Uncertainty, Price controls, Institutions, Constitutions, Law and Economics

Aerospace technology and hospital systems

The use of aerospace medical techniques to improve the quality of earth health care systems is discussed. Data are focused on physiological measurements and monitoring, medical information management, clean room technology, and reliability and quality assurance for hospital equipment

Chromatic Meaning in the Palestinian Plastic Art, the Art Work of the Artist Taleb Dweik as a Model

The research aims to identify the color meaning in the works of plastic artist Taleb Dweik, and tries to monitor the artistic aspects of these meanings and their material and uses in the artist's paintings, hence, the importance of research stems from the fact that it seeks to dismantle the semantics of color within a number of paintings of that artist, studying and analyzing it, seven paintings by the artist were intentionally selected, the research can benefit practitioners in the visual arts generally from painters and critics, as well as providing benefit to academic institutions concerned with plastic art. Keywords: Palestinian plastic art, connotation, color

New insights into the study of english False Friends: Their use and understanding by spanish learners of english

This PhD thesis deals with English false friends. It aims at identifying the difficulties Spanish learners have with these words in their interpretation and use of English. More specifically, it looks into the significance of these lexical items in the spoken and written performance of Spanish learners. This dissertation is also intended to cast some light on the potential comprehension problems derived from the existence of false friends in the English language

Special Libraries, February 1966

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Nematode assemblages in a nature reserve with historical pollution

Nematodes, and especially nematode communities, have significant potential as bio-indicators. The present studyaimed to assess the nematode community structure of several sites with different historical pollution. Long-term polluted municipal waste-, tar- and sludge- sites were compared with less disturbed annex sites. At each site heavy metal and PAHs concentrations were measured together with soil texture classes, pH and total organic matter. Identification of three hundred nematodes at each location resulted in the discrimination of 63 genera from 32 different families of which the Cephalobidae, Belonolaimidae, Tylenchidae, Hoplolaimidae, Belonolaimidae and Plectidae were the most abundant families. The sampling sites harbour significantly different nematode communities and significant differences of life-strategy-related parameters (cp-groups, MI indexes) wereobserved. The significant augmentation of the proportion of the cp 2 nematodes in historically-polluted sites was especially informative. Omitting the cp 1 group from the MI (=MI2-5) better reflects putative historical pollution-induced community changes. However, the current study did not reveal significant relationships between historical pollution and the feeding type composition, or the Shannon-Wiener diversity. The observed results are critically assessed in the light of possible flaws such as sampling and analyzing limitations