League Tables, Love Them or Hate Them

Adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery: why surgeons either love them or hate them after three decades.

Strabismus surgeons continually seek to achieve the best results from their surgery, which means stable motor alignment and sensory improvement with a minimum number of procedures. But the tables and algorithms that we employ for the number of muscles to be included in the surgery, and for the doses of surgery, are often not appropriate for difficult or unpredictable cases. The ability to modif...

The hemodialysis catheter conundrum: hate living with them, but can't live without them.

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis requires reliable recurrent access to the circulation. On a chronic basis, this has been best provided by the use of arteriovenous fistulae and arteriovenous grafts. In recent years, hemodialysis catheters have come to play an increasingly important role in the delivery of hemodialysis. The use of both temporary as well as cuffed hemodialysis catheters has emerged as a s...

Wear them, forget them.

Distributed Recommender Systems and the Network Topologies that Love Them

One approach to distributed recommender systems is to have users sample products at random and randomly query one another for the best item they have found. We have been considering refinements to this approach that take advantage of a communication network; users may share information only with their immediate neighbors, who either by design or by nature may have common interests. In the “mail...

Love, Hate and Reparation

The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...