The Anaesthesia Science Viva Book

Improvement Science in Anaesthesia

Purpose of Review This article offers an overview of the history and features of Improvement Science in general and some of its applications to Anaesthesia in particular. Recent Findings Improvement Science is an evolving discipline aiming to generate learning from quality improvement interventions. An increasingly common approach to improving Anaesthesia services is to employ large-scale per...

The Viva File System

This paper describes the Viva File System or VIFS, a technique for highperformance file allocation on disks. VIFS uses bitmaps to represent both free blocks on the disk and allocated blocks in each file. Allocation bitmaps provide a very fast method of finding blocks close to the last allocated block in a file. Fragments (partial blocks) are used to store the overflow from the last file block; ...

Viva the h-index

In their article ‘The inconsistency of the h-index’ Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Neck give three examples to demonstrate the inconsistency of the h-index. As will be shown below, a little extension of their examples just illustrate the opposite, a stable feature of the h-index. For starting authors it, the h-index that is, focusses on the number of articles; for experienced authors its focus s...

Viva the worm

Viva the worm ike yin and yang, good things usually come at a cost. If you live longer, then you give up reproductive fitness in return. The merits of this model—termed antagonistic pleiotropy—have been argued by evolutionary biologists for half a century. Some believe that the effort of reproduction is necessarily linked to deterioration characteristic of aging. have challenged the idea by unc...

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