Conway's Microdiffusion Analysis: Eighty years on and still counting!

Forty years of unwarranted variation--and still counting.

1 A subsequent household interview that compared six Vermont hospital service areas with widely varying spending and utilization rates showed no differences in self-reported illness, insurance coverage, ethnicIn 1967, fresh out of my medical training at Johns Hopins, I took a job as director of Vermont’s Regional Medical rogram (RMP) at the University of Vermont. The Vermont MP was part of a na...

Anniversary paper: nuclear medicine: fifty years and still counting.

The history, present status, and possible future of nuclear medicine are presented. Beginning with development of the rectilinear scanner and gamma camera, evolution to the present forms of hybrid technology such as single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography/CT is described. Both imaging and therapy are considered and the recent improvem...

Forty years and still counting: A tribute to

This short paper is intended to highlight some of the research contributions of Tony Guttmann on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

Eighty years of random networks

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.