Your reserves may be best estimate, but are they valid?

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

Parents and mentors may be gone but they are never forgotten.

The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed well-being of Scots is lower than that of the English or Welsh, even after taking into account any differences in characteristics. Scots also s...

Recent Cold Fusion Claims: Are They Valid?

of a paper to be present at the March 2004 meeting of American Physical Society. These abstracts can be seen at the APS web site: http://www.eps.org/aps/meet/MAR03/baps/abs/S9530.html 28) J.Bockris “Early Contributions From Workers at Texas A&M University to (So-Caled) Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.”Journal of New Energy, Vol 4, no 2, 1999, p. 40 29) J. Bockris, G. Lin, and N. Packham " A Review...

Dynamic simulation models: how valid are they?

In a strict sense, the subject of dynamic simulation model validity can be treated thoroughly and quickly: there are no fully valid models because all models are something less than the object, or system, being modeled. For example, millions of people have a conceptual model of the President, but, like fingerprints, no two of these models is exactly the same. Further, none matches precisely eve...