What Should the Modern Secondary School Aim to Accomplish? II

Modern Mathematical Physics: What It Should Be

When somebody asks me, what I do in science, I call myself a specialist in mathematical physics. As I have been there for more than 40 years, I have some definite interpretation of this combination of words: " mathematical physics. " Cynics or purists can insist that this is neither mathematics nor physics, adding comments with a different degree of malice. Naturally, this calls for an answer, ...

Modern Anesthesia Machines: What You Should Know

The closed claims analysis by Caplan, et.al. in 1997 remains the most definitive description of gas delivery equipment morbidity. Although relatively few claims arise (1.2% since 1985), the rate of misuse is three times higher than pure equipment failure, and better monitoring could have prevented 78%. This point is emphasized by Caplan in the 2004 APSF workshop on use of audible alarms 2 , and...

Commentary: what can epidemiology accomplish?

Over the past 20 years epidemiological studies of risk factors have led the way to a great many discoveries useful to public health. Some particularly striking examples are found in child health. We can point to the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by sleeping position of the infant, the prevention of neural tube defects by periconceptional folate supplementation, and the improvement ...

1 What Is Game Theory Trying to Accomplish ?

Editorial: What we aim for

W hat is the level of quality and impact that we aim for in articles published in EMPH? This is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses a broad audience. Interdisciplinary work is often thought to suffer from a lack of rigor because it can escape the scrutiny that referees habitually apply to work in core disciplines. That is not what we intend here. We hold interdisciplinary work to a high...