How Can We Make Our Assessment of Motor AbilityRelevant Cross-Culturally?

Commentary: how can we make diagnosis safer?.

Diagnostic errors are common and are a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction and malpractice suits. Because of its traditional heavy reliance on memory and lack of standardization, the diagnostic process is particularly error prone. A study by Zwaan and colleagues on diagnostic failures in treating dyspneic patients makes several important contributions: examining the process behind the diag...

How can we make them work ?

How fast can we make interpreted Python?

Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy). Unfortunately, Python’s performance is quite poor when compared to modern implementations of languages such as L...

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...

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...