Revalidation – hostage to fortune?

The increasing demand for knee replacements: a hostage to fortune.

Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a huge problem. Even in our small group practice we have hundreds of patients who suffer daily pain and disability. Knee replacement surgery is a very effective remedy, but can be risky, and quite a lot of patients are medically unfit for the procedure. Analgesics, systemic and topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and intra-articular (IA) steroid inj...

Hostage Posting

We survey research on incurring commitments by voluntary hostage posting as a mechanism of cooperation. The Trust Game is employed as a paradigmatic example of cooperation problems. We sketch a very simple game-theoretic model that shows how voluntary hostage posting can bind the trustee and thus induce trustfulness of the trustor as well as trustworthiness of the trustee. We then indicate how ...

Fortune Teller

In this paper, we document the development of a learning algorithm that rates the popularity of a song on a scale of 0 to 5, using a carefully chosen set of musical features. Along with personal interest, the main motivation is to be able to help both the artists and label/advertisement companies in the music industry. We considered two different datasets (MP3 and MSD) and we tried to mitigate ...

The Hostage Seekers

group of eighty couples, f?f * childless and forty adopfi^ parents, living in a fairly unsophi^ cated rural area. The author his interviewer worked closely ^ , the consultant of the local hospi*3 who had seen all these couples o^e their problem of infertility durinthe preceding ten years. The results of this research fascinating reading, sometimes ploding the tenderly held theor'e of many adopt...

Military Psychiatry and Hostage Negotiation 271 INTRODUCTION TYPES OF HOSTAGE SITUATIONS Criminal Domestic Terrorist PRINCIPLES OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION THE NEGOTIATION MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION