Our Research Output is Up, but is the Quality?

Quality is our lifeblood

I have had the privilege of editing for many years and for a variety of different journals. But then along comes JHPS, the Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery, our journal, your journal, something different, something new. Issue 1 is now out there and, if the welcoming comments we received at the recent International Society for Hip Arthroscopy meeting in Rio de Janeiro are anything to go by, J...

What Is the Best Research Globally?

Dr. Afshari’s editorial gives insight on human nature (1). Collaborative willingness usually occurs when different sides perceive personal benefit, or when institutions mandate collaboration. This is not unique between higher and lower income countries; many working in global emergency medicine (EM) observe this within wealthier countries. It exists among collaborators in low resource settings....

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

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Nature Is Fundamentally Discrete but Our Basic Formalism Is Not

In physics, we have been seriously confronted with the question of continuous vs. discrete since the beginning of the last century. Why is it still with us, and increasingly so in the last sixty years? The title of the essay suggests the reason: so far, we have relied on the “continuous”, or vector space, mathematics (of spatial origin), the only one we have, while the experiments suggest that,...