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...Chinese medicine,” he says. “But for many years people tried to keep me in the closet. People didn’t know how to deal with me.” But by publishing several scholarly articles and demonstrating his capacity as an expert researcher, Kaptchuk has climbed to the top of his field. “I think the Medical School is good about giving me space. I’ve demonstrated that I won’t do anything too bizarre,” he jokes...
...addition to being a master of traditional Chinese medicine, Kaptchuk is also an expert on the placebo effect—the phenomenon that results in people feeling healthier simply because they believe in the medicine they are using—and has published a number of articles on the subject. Kaptchuk continues to do research on the placebo effect, in addition to speaking, attending seminars and helping to run the Osher Foundation...
...Especially since I am not an expert on these issues, I will ask several faculty members to read and comment on the proposal,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail...
Specialized forecasting software comes equipped with an assortment of statistical tools and can be set to apply techniques automatically that normally only an expert statistician would know about. The software manufacturers offer consultation at an added cost, but many customers are able to use the programs right...
...Because of their high turnover, hypermarkets can throw their weight around with local suppliers by demanding lower prices. Costco buys directly from manufacturers to stock its two stores in Japan?a practice that disrupts the country's entrenched but inefficient distribution networks, which have multiple layers of middlemen. Security expert John Muller, president of McFadden Protection Agency Thailand, theorizes that Tesco's Thai stores may have been attacked by Mafia-like cartels he says control the flow of goods in the country. (Thai police have made no arrests and the cases are unsolved.) Foreign superstores "upset the whole chain...