Out of the frying-pan into the PWR

[From the frying pan into the fire].

List reversal: back into the frying pan

More than thirty years ago Rod Burstall showed how to do a proof of a neat little program, shown in a modern notation in figure 1(a) [4]. The program, which was well understood by programmers even before Burstall’s efforts, reverses the order of a straight-line linked list of cells in the heap using only three variables and without moving or copying anything in the heap. An algorithm which does...

Foodborne disease in the new millennium: out of the frying pan and into the fire?

About four million cases of foodborne infectious disease occur annually in Australia; new foodborne pathogens, such as enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, are emerging. Climate change, combined with changes in how we produce and distribute food and how we behave as consumers, have the potential to affect foodborne disease in the coming century. Foodborne disease outbreaks are now more far-reac...

Out of the frying pan into the fire: behavioral reactions to terrorist attacks.

A low-probability, high-damage event in which many people are killed at one point of time is called a dread risk. Dread risks can cause direct damage and, in addition, indirect damage mediated though the minds of citizens. I analyze the behavioral reactions of Americans to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and provide evidence for the dread hypothesis: (i) Americans reduced their air...

Urinary colic during low-back treatment: out of the frying pan into the fire?

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to present a possible discrete effect of heat therapy on the urinary system during physical therapy of a patient with lumbar discopathy. DESIGN This is a case report. Setting. This study was carried out in a a tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS A 33-year-old man with the diagnosis of lumbar discopathy undertook physical th...