Nip/Tuck well past its best before

Urine spoke well before the patient

A 59-year-old man with diabetes mellitus Type II, arterial hypertension and depressive disorder was hospitalized due to unexplained severe inebriation followed by sedation. Regular medications consisted of metformin 1500 mg, enalapril 20 mg and paroxetine 20 mg. Blood tests showed a creatinine of 0.9 mg/dL (79 lmol/L), glucose 110mg/dL (6.1mmol/L) and potassium 6.4 mmol/L. Blood gas test showed...

Differential Geometry ; Its past and Its Future

It was almost a century ago, in 1872, that Felix Klein formulated his Erlanger Program. The idea of unifying the geometries under the group concept is simple and attractive and its applications in the derivation of different geometrical theorems from the same group-theoretic argument are usually of great elegance. This leads to the development of differential geometries of submanifolds in homog...

Promoting Policing at Its Best

Library Education: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future

This paper traces the history of library education primarily as it developed in the United States. The issues pertaining to curriculum, students, and faculty are presented as are the current questions of whether the educational program should have a professional, vocational, or discipline-based focus. Introduction The modern period in the history of education for librarianship began in the mid-...

Lessons from before Roe: will past be prologue?

8 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 The Supreme Court did not “invent” legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation’s founding and for several d...