Preface to the mangled modifier

PREFACE

Management of the mangled extremity

The management of a mangled extremity continues to be a matter of debate. With modern advances in trauma resuscitation, microvascular tissue transfer, and fracture fixation, severe traumatic extremity injuries that would historically have been amputated are often salvaged. Even if preserving a mangled limb is a technical possibility, the question is often raised whether the end result will also...

Preface to the Handbook

Purpose The explosive growth in computer power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. Volume 1 of the Handbook of Computational Economics (Amman et al. 1996) surveyed the growing literature on computational methods for solving standard economic models such as Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie general equilibrium models and rational expectations models. This second ...

Preface to the Student

Humanbeings arrive at truth in fourways: Faith, authority, revelation, andobservation. All other animals rely only upon authority, by observing adults, and observation, by, for example, tasting fruit or experiencing the changing of the seasons. Very few species other than Man, although they, too, may experience territorialism, practice genocide or wage organized war. This is perhaps a commentar...

Preface to the proceedings

The University of Leicester is planning to develop a CubeSat mission for spaceweather monitoring to participate in the European nanosatellite network project QB50, whichaims to launch 50 CubeSats in 2014. This paper will describe the CubeSat mission and thescience payloads that will be developed. The CubeSat will carry an innovative miniaturisedultraviolet Wide-Field Auroral Ima...