University rankings and medical physics

A different approach to university rankings

Educationalists are well able to find fault with rankings on numerous grounds and may reject them outright. However, given that they are here to stay, we could also try to improve them wherever possible. All currently published university rankings combine various measures to produce an overall score using an additive approach. The individual measures are first normalized to make the figures ‘co...

On the function of university rankings

Global network centrality of university rankings

Universities and higher education institutions form an integral part of the national infrastructure and prestige. As academic research benefits increasingly from international exchange and cooperation, many universities have increased investment in improving and enabling their global connectivity. Yet, the relationship of university performance and its global physical connectedness has not been...

Medical Physics

The importance of physics and chemistry in biology is well established. However, many biologists and workers in experimental medicine are limited in the knowledge and understanding of these subjects in relation to their sciences. Probably one reason for this difficulty is seen in the wide distribution of such work in the literature. Further, terminology and mathematical concepts are frequently ...

Medical Physics

THE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ANDREAS VESALIUS. With annotations and translations, a discussion of the plates and their background, authorship, and influence, and a biographical sketch of Vesalius by J. B. deC. M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1950. 248 pp. $10.00. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was, more than any other man, the founder of modern ana...