Leonard J. Kirsch, 1934-1977

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Foreword Leonard

Much has changed in computer security since 1973, when the Bell-LaPadula model was first published. Development has moved away from kernel-based secure systems toward application-level security capabilities, providing secure transactions on top of commercial, nonsecure operating systems. The potential for widespread use of encryption for privacy, authentication, and other services, as embodied ...

Leonard J. Goldner Award 2009. Intraoperative pedobarography leads to improved outcome scores: a Level I study.

BACKGROUND The purpose was to compare the clinical outcome scores after additional use of intraoperative pedobarography (IP) in comparison with patients treated without IP. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with arthrodesis and/or correction of the foot and/or ankle were randomized for use of IP or no IP. American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) score, Short-Form 36 (SF-36), and Visua...

A personal tribute to Ralph Kirsch.

Ralph’s many academic and organisational achievements have been eloquently told by many and are not the subject of this personal account. Let me explain. When I first met Ralph in the mid 1990s, he struck me as a talkative, overly nice, trying-to-make-up-for-apartheid type of man. Our family later moved to Oxford, and one day Ralph and Beverley happened to pass through. Amidst the pleasantries,...

In memoriam: J. Worth Estes, 10 May 1934-22 October 2000.