This appendix provides details of the method used throughout the book to measure economic resilience, based on principles of complexity science, statistics and time series analysis.

This chapter, in exploring the implications of Derrida's admission of the example of the Clipper chip into the book version of Politics of Friendship, desacralises the notion of chōra, as ‘the place of possible substitution’, and as ‘third genus’ between the intelligible and the sensible. This opens up a ‘spectrology’ of the in-between in which the importance of design educa¬tion, design practices and designed entities emerges, as media for formal and informal public education, by extension from Derrida's emphasis on the role of literature and the humanities in the university. In doing so, it acknowledges Derrida's emphasis on secrecy or confidentiality for his conception of the relation between the educational and the political. For Derrida, reflection upon the Kantian ethics and politics of friendship should organise itself around the concept of secrecy (PF, 257). The secret is ‘that which one thinks […] must remain secret because an engagement has been entered upon and a promise made in certain non-natural conditions’ (259). It is the in(ter)vention of the third party as witness, however, that prevents the jealous narcissism of the dual, or the n+1, relation of the secret from sinking into abyssal self-reflection, opening the possibility of a moral and a political friendship that nevertheless remains, even for Kant's friend of humankind, within the horizon of cosmopolitics as phratrocentrism, a hori¬zon that Derrida affirmatively deconstructs.

This chapter selects two case studies to examine the presence of global experimentalist governance in ocean acidification governance: the Ocean Acidification Alliance and the International Maritime Organization. The selection distinguishes between ‘suitable’ institutions (addressing one OA activity) and those with ‘significant potential’ (addressing multiple activities within one concern or across concerns). Using a comprehensive table that maps actors and instruments, the chapter analyses how institutions address OA’s three concerns: causes (CO2, NOx/SOx), stressors (e.g., climate change, pollution, and fishing), and adaptation (blue carbon, marine protected areas, and fisheries management). Most institutions show significant potential by addressing concerns in depth and/or breadth. The OA Alliance was selected as the only institution explicitly focused on OA, addressing CO2 emissions and coastal activities. The IMO was chosen for its role in shipping emissions (both CO2 and NOx/SOx) and broader pollution control mandate. These cases differ in legalisation levels and institutional structure, providing diverse perspectives on experimentalist governance challenges. Both have significant potential and focus on CO2, the primary OA driver, making them ideal candidates for testing the implementation of global experimentalist governance.

In this chapter, we consider nonparametric regression when we have more than one feature. First, we show how the methods in Chapter 6 can be extended to handle this case. Then, we consider additive regression, regression trees, and random forests. Another estimator based on neural nets is discussed in Chapter 12.

In the previous chapter we looked at how we use and understand language, now let’s look at the ways that people lose language and also experience language difficulties of various kinds. These aren’t the normal errors and mistakes we’ve already discussed, but are the result of disability, disease, disorder, brain injury, and other factors that can affect speech use and understanding and further impair the ability to read and write. In the US alone, between five to ten percent of the population have various types of communication disorders. The figures are even higher for learning disorders such as dyslexia. All in all, this amounts to millions of people who live with language differences. This chapter discusses how both developmental and acquired disorders affect language processing and production.

This chapter describes a case of a 42-year-old male with lower back pain, who is a current IV heroin user. The patient reports feeling generally weak, but denies focal weakness, incontinence, or sensory loss. The secondary survey reveals lumbar tenderness, diminished rectal tone, and a 3 cm abscess with surrounding erythema on the skin at the right inner thigh. The patient is diagnosed with spinal epidural abscess and is started on broad-spectrum IV antibiotics, undergoes incision and drainage of the abscess, and receives a spinal MRI. The chapter also highlights important pearls, including the fact that Staph aureusis the most commonly involved bacteria, and MRI imaging is the gold standard with a sensitivity and specificity greater than 90%.

Chapter 4 examines local concepts of right(s), dissecting the ways in which brokering and begging were viewed as charitable compensations for the lack of government protection for disabled people, but claimed by the recipients as forms of work. Aspiring to have their activities recognised as rights, they spoke a local language of entitlement that conflated the value of independent work with the ethical and political right to care, asserting obligatory rights or taxes, against the donors’ perception of gifts. The language of ‘rights’ is a space of mutual evaluation, a rich and powerful language for discussing issues of inequality, membership, personhood, welfare, and power in Kinshasa today. It is perhaps most significant as a claim for distribution than as a legal premise of entitlements. Here, the question of a rightful share becomes pertinent, as givers and receivers evoked differing views on the same transaction that expressed contradictory aspirations and values. In the absence of formal institutions to enforce informal disability privileges, people had to recognise the right to be beggars or brokers on an interpersonal level, requiring constant value tests on whether claims to assistance were legitimate. The chapter thus disrupts the classic Maussian focus on giving and production to consider the moral and political controversies associated with asking and distribution.

A patient presents for shortness of breath due to a pericardial effusion, with tamponade physiology, requiring emergent interventions.

This chapter presents a case of a 50-year-old male with community-acquired pneumonia triggering sudden worsening of underlying hyperthyroidism. The case highlights the identification of hyperthyroidism despite several vital sign changes that could be due to either his pneumonia or underlying hyperthyroidism, as well as medical intervention to treat hyperthyroidism without worsening the disease process.

Chapter 8 looks at a critical moment in Keats’s life in order to trace the way, in his letters, he works through a crucial decision about his future as a writer. Focusing on a series of interlinked and in some ways ‘porous’ letters written during a single week in September 1819, the chapter discusses Keats’s sense that he is, or soon will be, ‘unpoeted’ – that he can no longer be a poet. Alone in the small city of Winchester, Keats writes a series of often overlapping letters that ultimately move him towards a decision concerning whether or not to end his career as a poet. The chapter aligns the specific circumstances of the limited space of the cathedral city in which Keats is temporarily staying with the limited space of the letter-page itself and examines how he resolves a critical life choice in and through correspondence.