Oxygenation criteria-a plea for more information

Herniated intervertebral disk: a plea for a more uniform terminology.

In the original description of herniated intervertebral disk by Mixter and Barr [1), the term used was rupture of the inter-vertebral disk. However, with the passage of time, this term, although used frequently by surgeons, has become meaningless. A rupture of the disk is a common finding at autopsy when the disks are examined, but ruptures are not necessarily associated with herniation of the ...

A Plea for the More Common Use of Lumbar Puncture

A plea for more theory in molecular biology.

The integrationist principles of systems theory have proven hugely successful in the physical sciences and engineering. It is an underlying assumption made in the systems approach to biology that they can also be used to understand biological phenomena at the level of an entire organism or organ. Within this holistic vision, the vast majority of systems biology research projects investigate phe...

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

A Plea for Barabbas.