This pourquoi tale completes the "Friday Night Talk with Kids" series, along with "Amazing Domes," "Amazing Windows," "Amazing Cave-Houses," "Amazing Railways," "Amazing Meteorites," "Amazing Snowflakes," "Fifty Odd Loci of the United States," "Our One Zany Universe," "Amazing Grannies," "Amazing Humanitarians," "Cheesebaden," "My Tea Book," "Patas and Mata-mata in Gem Mining Expedition," "Seeds in the Garbage," "Hybrids," "The Hedgehog, Lavender, and the Republic," "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," "Henrietta Stuart and the French Courtier," "Tulipa Van Baerlensis," "The Secret Codes of Mary,...

In caring for a pregnant women, physicians consider the health of two biologically linked, yet individually viable patients. Viewed as an organic whole, the combined maternal-fetal benefit of proposed interventions is weighed against the combined burdens. The complexity of maternal-fetal conflicts (MFC) places the medical profession in a position where the provider's determination in doing what is believed to be the best is seen as a denial of women's autonomy or pro-fetus jurisprudence. In the common-law, the concept of MFC often becomes an indirect evidence or inter alia, an ever-resolving...

EPIDEMIOLOGY IS ABOUT MASTERING THE CONCEPT OF CONFOUNDING. Applying multiple queue, this 360-page effort mathematically describes a variety of approaches and designs that escalate the vigor of non-randomized comorbidity research in relatively small samples: marginal and hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo iterates, stochastic compartmental simulations, and elliptical regression. The theory chapter is followed by presentation of the author's twelve meta-studies.

This pourquoi tale employs an intelligent and compassionate hedgehog, a sedative mentor-lavender, and a newly established Green Republic with its green anthem and agenda. If you want to learn more about the formation of a coalition "Green-Bill-Gray-Deal," the convention against the anthropogenic stress, electoral college or votes, take a 7-minute break at your coffee table, and indulge in this humorous story bound to fix your mood for the rest of your day. You sure deserve it

AUTHORS NOTE: Dedicated to the 300th birthday of Frederick the Great, this book presents one of the most elusive and controversial rulers of the 18th century, subjected to myriad glories and legends, and whose personality requires a few more centuries to duke it out what kind of combat or person he was. Since German unification under the Great Elector, Frederick II has been unfairly seen as the root of militarist Germany that dominated Europe during the First and Second World Wars. Most biographies focus heavily on the rehabilitation of his reputation that was already overshadowed by Napoleon...

A trace element (TE) is a chemical element presented below 0.1 wt. % and required in minute quantities to maintain proper physical functioning. TE analysis in clinical samples (plasma, urine, cerebro-spinal fluid, full-term placenta, hair, nails, buccal mucosa, semen, biopsy specimens) has received increasing attention. Based on 62 sources, current effort presents comparative knowledge about the attempts to accurately trace TE in clinical samples through Vis/NIR, PIXE, TXRF, GFAAS, ICP-MS. It informs the need for further research adjustments to reveal the reciprocal states of certain TE...

Unconscious null-para arrives in emergency room with the uterine rupture in progress. A cesarean section is performed followed by hysterectomy. Understandably, the surgery causes a permanent impairment. Result? No battery. Why? The hospital and physicians can prove an affirmative defense of consent. In a prima facie case, for a patient incapable of giving or withholding consent, the consent is implied by law. So too, there was no intent to harm the patient. What about negligence? There is a room for the negligence claim in this case, because the hospital and physicians had the duty to perform...