Our house is on fire

President's page: Strengthening our house of cardiology.

h n v m i c t uring our careers, we have witnessed an explosion of cientific and clinical knowledge aided by new technologies nd a growing network of supportive, specialized health care rofessionals. More investment in treatment and prevention esearch is fueling medical innovation. The average life span s growing significantly, providing new lifestyle opportuniies for living healthfully into ou...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Planar graph is on fire

Let G be any connected graph on n vertices, n ≥ 2. Let k be any positive integer. Suppose that a fire breaks out on some vertex of G. Then in each turn k firefighters can protect vertices of G — each can protect one vertex not yet on fire; Next a fire spreads to all unprotected neighbours. The k-surviving rate of G, denoted by ρ k (G), is the expected fraction of vertices that can be saved from...

House fire injury prevention update. Part I. A review of risk factors for fatal and non-fatal house fire injury.

OBJECTIVE To summarize house fire injury risk factor data, using relative risk estimation as a uniform method of comparison. METHODS Residential fire risk factor studies were identified as follows: MEDLINE (1983 to March 1997) was searched using the keywords fire*/burn*, with etiology/cause*, prevention, epidemiology, and smoke detector* or alarm*. ERIC (1966 to March 1997) and PSYCLIT (1974 ...

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