Editorial: Reflections on Forty

Reflections on forty years of rendering medical care to women.

This paper provides a brief account of events leading to the establishment of the constitutional right to privacy in the case known as Griswold vs. State of Connecticut. It also discusses changes in the training of residents in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and the evolving role of women in the residency program. It concludes with reflections ...

Guest Editorial: Reflections on Medical Physics Training

The process of tightening qualifications to sit for ABR certification exams in subspecialties of medical physics is reaching the end of its arc. Predictably, this has sparked renewed hue and cry from individuals who would prefer to be offered lucrative careers without being held to those higher standards, as evidenced by a recent discussion thread on the electronic networking site LinkedIn. I o...

Forty Sixth CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2013 Editorial

Nowadays manufacturing companies are coerced to become more flexible to adapt their internal processes quickly and economically to the volatile external situations. In this paper, we develop a cost model with respect to the capacity envelope concept. Generic flexibility measures are used and described by numerous influence factors and constraints. Furthermore, the cost model will be demonstrate...

Editorial: Some random reflections on the equal co-first authorships.

Editorial: Northern Lights: Reflections on Canadian Gerontological Research

The occasion of the first meeting in Canada of the International Association of Gerontology (LAG) provides the Canadian Journal on Aging with a unique opportunity to review the state of the fields of gerontology and geriatrics in our country and to place that review in an international context. In this introduction to this special supplement of the Canadian Journal on Aging, we briefly overview...