Prospective Evaluation of Few Homeopathic Rubrics of Kent’s Repertory From Bayesian Perspective

Absolute grading system of homeopathic repertories poses substantial threat to reliability; however, it may be resolved by evaluating rubrics prospectively using likelihood ratio (LR). The authors evaluated few “physical general” rubrics from Kent’s repertory—“chilly,” “hot,” “ambithermal,” “preference for hot/cold food,” “desire/aversion for fish/egg/meat/sour/pungent/salt/sweet/bitter”—prospectively in West Bengal, India, for 1.5 years using the Outcome Related to Impact on Daily Living scale. Per symptom/rubric, LRs < 1.5 were discarded. A total of 2039 encounters were analyzed for thermal relations and 4715 for desires/aversions for specific food items. Comparison with Kent’s repertory revealed discrepancies. One new rubric with corresponding medicines was suggested to be introduced, new entries of medicines were recommended, and some seemed to maintain their ascribed importance. The authors refrained from converting LRs into typefaces prematurely; still they propose introducing LR to repertories for a structural update, changing its use, and enabling homeopaths to make more reliable predictions.

Automobile in the Disposition of Energy-Saving Houses

In the disposition of energetically economic houses, automobile abandons its stereotype held for so many years according to which it was placed to rest “under one roof” with other residential and utility rooms. However, this diagram shows a range of collisions manifesting with difficult building details, with occurrence of thermal bridges and thermal relations. This results in increased financial demands for drafting efficient thermal insulation layers or higher demand for energy consumption necessary to heat up the building. Generally, architects and structural engineers are not sufficiently aware of the fact that at the same time this is a factor that provides higher potential for faster ageing of car bodies and chassis when cars are parked “inside the house” than in means of transport parked in open carports or in an open space. This Paper deals with analyses of this important, yet often omitted or less-known fact.