My first Tensilon test

My scientific first-born

Some vignettes from the career of Professor Bezalel Peleg. More than fifty years ago, during the academic year 1957–1958, I assisted Prof. Shmuel Agmon in an undergraduate course on the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, in the mathematics department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Agmon gave the lectures, and I was in charge of the exercises. Every week I would assign exercises ...

My first suture.

council of India defines internship as “a phase of training wherein a graduate is expected to conduct actual practice of medical and health care and acquire skills under supervision so that he/she may become capable of functioning independently” (1). It is meant to serve as a bridge between the theoretical learning of a medical student and the practical skills of a trained physician. It is also...

My questions about Haikonen’s Mirror Test

I would like to ask you some questions about the content of your paper, and would appreciate receiving an answer. Your paper introduces the following simple device and asserts that it passes the Mirror Test. The explanations for Fig. 1 in the paper include the following [1].

My first 50 years of orthopaedic surgery.

Factors predicting a positive pregnancy screening test at first trimester

Background: For every pregnant woman, it is possible to have a child with chromosomal abnormalities. Although this possibility is not very high, by performing screening tests and considering the mother's background factors, we can largely realize the real extent of this possibility. Many comorbidities (like high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity) and high-risk exposures (like alcohol consu...