50 years of space science at Leicester

Open water scuba diving accidents at Leicester: five years' experience.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the incidence, type, outcome, and possible risk factors of diving accidents in each year of a five year period presenting from one dive centre to a large teaching hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department. METHODS All patients included in this study presented to the A&E department at a local teaching hospital in close proximity to the l...

Dialysis at a crossroads: 50 years later.

The ability to offer repetitive hemodialysis for treatment of chronic kidney failure has now reached its half-century anniversary. Although millions of patients have benefited from this life-extending procedure, current results in the United States have now stagnated with only small annual improvements in survival and continued high hospitalization rates. Recognition that this stagnation may be...

DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years

1 DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years Rob A. Rutenbar University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign How does one survey a quarter century of technical contributions at a world-­‐class venue like the Design Automation Conference? This was the daunting challenge I faced when asked to survey the second 25 years of DAC’s history at the 50th anniversary conference event in 2013. One can imagine severa...

After 5 years at Science.

THIS EDITORIAL, WRITTEN AS I COMPLETE MY TERM AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF SCIENCE, PROVIDES AN opportunity to refl ect on the role of science in human societies. As the president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences from 1993 to 2005, I came to realize that science is much more important for the world than most scientists suspect.* The scientifi c values of honesty, respect for evidence, openness...

50 years of Sterillium®