“There’s always an option”

Petroclival meningiomas: is radical resection always the best option?

BACKGROUND The surgical management of petroclival meningiomas is, despite the invaluable technical achievements in the past decade, still burdened by a high operative morbidity. It seems doubtful whether radical surgical removal should always be the primary goal in those lesions as advocated until very recently. METHODS A series was critically analysed and the literature discussed to elucidat...

[Occupational nursing. Always a specialty. A future option].

En este año 2009 se cumple medio siglo de la primera regulación espećıfica sobre funciones y formación necesaria para ejercer en el ambito de la enfermeŕıa del trabajo. Desde entonces hasta nuestros d́ıas el nivel de exigencia a la hora de garantizar unas adecuadas condiciones de trabajo en el que la salud de los trabajadores no se vea afectada dista mucho de la que podŕıa pedirse hace cinco d e...

An Always Correct Method

Floating-point numbers are an essential part of modern software, recently gaining particular prominence on the web as the exclusive numeric format of Javascript. To use floating-point numbers, we require a way to convert binary machine representations into human readable decimal outputs. Existing conversion algorithms make trade-offs between completeness and performance. The classic Dragon4 alg...

Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.

Failure is an Option:

A regulatory advantage of options market-makers significantly weakens the link between short sales and equity loans. Their advantage is an option to fail to deliver shares, created by their ability to sell short without first identifying a lender. Two years of transactions by a major market-maker shows failed deliveries in half the hard-to-borrow situations, and not a single negative-rebate loa...