Amazing Things Happen When Student Nurses Are Given Birth Doula Training

When bad things happen to good trees

When the edges in a tree or rooted tree fail with a certain fixed probability, the (greedoid) rank may drop. We compute the expected rank as a polynomial in p and as a real number under the assumption of uniform distribution. We obtain several different expressions for this expected rank polynomial for both trees and rooted trees, one of which is especially simple in each case. We also prove tw...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Campuses

G ene Washington, director of acdemic computing, is buzzed by his secretary to take an urgent call from Provost Marion Mossback. “Washington,” yells Mossback, “what kind of trouble have you got Ypsilanti University into now?” After a few minutes of gentle probing, Washington has the outline of the “trouble.” Mossback has just received a letter from a prominent alumnus and benefactor, Mr. Martin...

When VAD Things Happen to Good People.

Training of student nurses.

The urgent need to minimize wastage among student nurses during training is too well known and well documented to require elaboration. Approximately one student out of every three joining the training schools of general hospitals fails to complete the prescribed course. The reasons for this failure vary, but are generally vague and indefinite. One approach to the problem is to compare the chara...

Amazing rare things

sex chromosomes, or not, and to know the time scale of any degeneration, which should help us to understand the processes involved. What do you think of the growing interest in theoretical approaches to biology? Population genetics has always had a large and integral theoretical component, so I think it is very welcome that there is a growing awareness of the value of theory and mathematical mo...