argue in this paper that these goals can be achieved more simply and more cost-effectively. First, we suggest the direct application of the "power of two choices" paradigm, whereby an item is stored at the less loaded of two (or more) random alterna- tives. We then consider how associating a

external reality primarily a quantum world such that in macroscopic dimensions classical properties evolve by decoherence and emergency? Or is there only a classical, macroscopic world of apparatuses and observers, and what we can say about the quantum world is nothing but a consistent way of speaking which illustrates without any ontological commitments merely the formalism of quantum mechanics?

“Through education, our task is to help women to take in everything that they learn and feel during the months of their preg-nancy. We must learn to work together with caution and consideration in order to unite the physical and emotional experi-ence o f p regnancy and to reduce the separation of body, soul and spirit. ” In this way the guide provides educators with numerous exercises and helps them to pro-vide personal, social, medical and educa-tional support to pregnant women. All the explanations given are accompanied by illustrations.

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate

and derive their (Gaussian) asymptotic distribution under the null hypothesis of a unit root and local alterna-tives. We show that these tests have significant asympotitic power when the model has no incidental trends. However, when there are incidental trends in the model and it is necessary to remove

Abstract: This article was written in order to contribute to a discussion about a critical definition of alternative media. Asking what role alternative media could play in challenging neoliberal discourse in an age where capitalism have become immune to criticism, it elaborates on the concept of “the alternative ” and the media through three sections. The first section dis-cusses neoliberalism and the connection between neoliberal doctrine and mainstream media. This connection is described as promoting “public amnesia”, financialization and economization of news journalism. The second section discusses alter-native media from the perspective of new social movements and symbolic resistance, claiming that the symbolic resistance framework undermines the critical potential of alternative media, it also comments on some recent critical literature on neo-liberalism and capitalism. The third section takes examples from artistic explorations of capitalism and television to propose how a distinction between social and formalist aspects of “the alternative ” could inform a critical notion of alternative media.

PURPOSE This study investigated the use of complementary and alternative med-icine (CAM) by Spanish-speaking Hispanics in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. METHODS We administered Spanish-language questionnaires regarding use of CAM to Spanish-speaking Hispanics seeking care at either a community-based residency practice or a rural community health center. RESULTS Overall, 69 % of the 70 respondents indicated that they used some type of CAM. The most common reason for using CAM was being taught to do so by family members (33%); other common reasons included a failure by their medi-cal professionals to diagnose their problem (29%), a lack of conventional medical treatment for their problem (29%), and being unhappy with previous medical advice (21%). The main medical conditions being treated with CAM were infec-tions (65%) and constipation and diarrhea (54%), but pregnancy-related issues were also cited (27%). CONCLUSIONS These fi ndings improve our understanding of alternative health care practices of Spanish-speaking Hispanics visiting primary care clinics in South Carolina. Addressing patients ’ reasons for CAM use may help health care profes-sionals develop patient-centered treatment plans. Ann Fam Med 2008;6(suppl 1):s12-s15. DOI: 10.1370/afm.736.

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them with nonnegligible probability if secrets are of sufficient length and randomly chosen. However, there are well-typed deterministic programs in a synchronous concurrent model capable of leaking secrets in linear time. 1

and furthering of the interpretation of this latent causal variable, offer criteria for evaluating alterna-tive measures of self-monitoring, and present a new, 18-item Self-Monitoring Scale. According to theoretical analyses of self-monitoring, people differ in the extent to which they can and do observe