“Being on Both Sides”

Both sides now.

Both Sides Now many of us working in the specialty of oncology experience confounded shock and disbelief when we or one of our family members are diagnosed with cancer. in some way, we subconsciously feel that if we dedicate ourselves to helping those fighting the disease, then maybe we gain immunity. As many of us have learned, this is not the case. i first experienced the shock and disbelief ...

Clouds from Both Sides

“Cloud computing” is the buzzword du jour. Everyone is either doing it or wants to; some technophiles even liken it to the Industrial Revolution. (Admittedly, those of us of a certain technical age have to squint to differentiate it from the time-sharing service bureaus of the 1960s.) But is the cloud “secure”? The question as I’ve just phrased it is unanswerable because neither “secure” nor (e...

Lines With Many Points On Both Sides

Let G be a finite set of points in the plane. A line M is a (k, k)-line, if M is determined by G, and there are at least k points of G in each of the two open half-planes bounded by M . Let f(k, k) denote the maximum size of a set G in the plane, which is not contained in a line and does not determine a (k, k)-line. In this paper we improve previous results of Jaakov Kupitz (f(k, k) ≤ 3k), Noga...

Torsion of the Ovary on Both Sides

On both sides of the prison walls-prisoners and HIV.

Few would refute that the most neglected and vulnerable of all populations in the global HIV/AIDS response are people who are incarcerated. Today, The Lancet continues its ongoing attention to HIV in marginalised populations with a collection of reviews on HIV and related infections in prisoners. Prison populations are at especially high risk of HIV infections as a consequence of risk factors t...