How can we govern if we don’t see our feet? Speaking of the matter of sustainability transitions

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Why Can We See a Local Spread of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) Infection?

How We Can Improve Our Highway Administration

My remarks on the subject of “How We Can Improve Our Highway Administration” will be confined to certain important areas where improvements can and must be effected if highway administra­ tion is to measure up to the responsibilities of today. To a large extent this discussion will be based upon observations and experience in Wis­ consin, where the highway department has gone through a period o...

How we see ourselves and how we see others.

People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at the same time that their experience of others is dominated by what can be observed externally. This basic asymmetry has broad consequences. It leads people to judge themselves and their own behavior differently from how they judge others and those others' behavior. ...