Calling the Tune

Research in general practice: who is calling the tune?

Paying the piper, calling the tune: implications of changes in reimbursement.

The calling.

I grew up in Africa, the younger of two sons of Indian parents who taught college physics. Around the time that my brother’s precocious ability with numbers was revealing itself, I discovered that I had no head for math — or for any other subject in the school curriculum. Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, and law. Whe...

Calling the Laboratory

IT is a pleasure to have the opportunity of reviewing a Government Publication which is a report to the Minister of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland, by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Queen's University of Belfast. It is the story, clearly and succinctly narrated, of a scientific survey into an important industrial hazard by Professor Pemberton and members of...

Tune Measurement at the Tevatron

The Tevatron is a single beam pipe machine which contains both protons and anti-protons for HEP. This poses a challenge for measuring betatron tunes because of the possibility of contamination from the other species. In order to overcome this problem, stripline type structures are usually used because they are directional by construction or for the case of the 21.4 MHz Schottky system, a clever...