During mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome, tidal volume (V T )
must be reduced. Once switched to pressure-support ventilation, there is a risk that …

BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic neuromuscular disease represent less than 10% of
those receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). Little has been reported …

Book Reviews 611 landed property—rent in kind and in cash, mortgages and annuities, taxes
and other public liabilities diverted into private hands and payable in cash, kind or labor—…

The precise magnitude of the stretch between the gold points deserves more scientific
consideration than it has yet received.(Keynes 1930, vol. 2:296)The nineteenth century prior to …

… Flandreau (Chapter 6), who adopts a different methodology to examine bimetallism within
France. The focus of Flandreau’s … Flandreau challenges the traditional view on two grounds, …

Book Reviews 611 landed property—rent in kind and in cash, mortgages and annuities, taxes
and other public liabilities diverted into private hands and payable in cash, kind or labor—…

… Contrary to the analytical choice of these authors, Ghislain Deleplace remarks in the fifth
chapter that David Ricardo may surprisingly be brought close to Benetti and Cartelier. …

Bimetallism has been the subject of considerable debate: Was it a viable monetary system?
Was it desirable? In our model, the amounts of each metal are split between coined metal, …

… A second procedure, employed by Marc Flandreau, uses a similar methodology except
that it replaces the ratio of market prices of gold between two countries for the exchange rate. …

… Marc Flandreau has o√ered a possible explanation for the success of the silver peso as a
kind of universal money in the early modern period, suggesting that its quality and stability in …