EDITORIAL: A better media deal?

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

A Better Deal for Subnormals

The past few years have seen a greater recognition of the part that research can play in estimating the need for medical care services, in analysing the ways in which such services actually function, as distinct from the ways in which they are conventionally assumed to function, and in assessing their effects upon patients. Such operational studies have already done a great deal to deepen our u...

A Better Way to Deal the Cards

Most of the work on card shuffling assumes that all the cards in a deck are distinct, and that in a well-shuffled deck all orderings need to be equally likely. We consider the case of decks with repeated cards and decks which are dealt into hands, as in bridge and poker. We derive asymptotic formulas for the randomness of the resulting games. Results include the influence of where a poker deck ...

A better deal for lung-diseased miners?

A better deal for newborns with congenital heart disease.

A better deal for newborns with congenital heart disease Despite the great strides made in management of heart diseases in children during the last 25 years, these still account for more deaths in infancy than all other congenital anomalies put together.1'2 Furthermore in population studies on necropsy, it has repeatedly been shown that of deaths certified as due to congenital heart disease, ab...