The importance of estimating discretization error has been sadly neglected in the computational solid mechanics community. Quite the opposite is true in the computational fluid dynamics community where discretization error estimation is required to publish numerical results in many CFD journals, including the ASME Fluids Engineering Journal. It is suggested that if more solid mechanics types wo...

Psychology has been historically plagued by the under-reporting of both replications and null findings. The avoidance of these core ingredients of scientific practice means that the psychology literature is unquestionably distorted. The bias in psychology is pervasive and systemic, afflicting researchers, reviewers, editors and journals, all of whom are wed to pursuing the novel and the curious...

Modern society relies heavily on computer programs or 'software'. Nearly everyone is aware that software sometimes malfunctions – it has 'bugs'. In a little known paper from 1949, Alan Turing described a technique for Checking a Large Routine; this paper might have accelerated the development of the subject of reasoning about software by decades, but sadly this gem from Turing had little impact...

Digitalisation of work and business processes with the aim to provide more efficient services at a higher and consistent quality is high on the agendas in many countries. In Denmark the push for digitalisation is witnessed by the national strategy for digitalisation published every four years. Sadly, it is also witnessed by a number of expensive failed digitalisation projects. In this paper we ...

Poland, the lakes and forests of Finland, the mountains of Norway, the dykes of Holland, the little hills of Belgium, and more recently the plain of Flanders. We have pictured ourselves administering first aid to the wounded, hot drinks to refugees, or just keeping cool under heavy fire ! But for most of us such portraits are drawn more from phantasy than from reality. Certainly we may do a lit...

should be encouraged to read this book. Sadly many will ignore it in their haste to push forward the frontiers of science, not understanding that the accounts here are from the creators of the modern science they pursue so relentlessly. More mature neuroscientists will undoubtedly relish the reminiscences. David Hubel's description of painstaking experiments, carried out in a "slapdash set-up" ...

Psychology, it has been alleged, has sadly neglected the study of language. Still, it could be argued that there exist dozens of psychological studies of selected problems in this area; as examples, investigations of vocabulary, child speech, and language ability could be cited. Moreover, we need only mention the writings of Gardiner (8), Kantor (10), Biihler (3), and De Laguna (6) to show that...

The incidence of ureteral lesions varies between 0.1% and 30% depending on the type of the surgical intervention. However, the surgical interventions in Obstetrics and Gynecology are responsible for 50% of the total iatrogenic ureteral lesions. Sadly, only 1/3 of the iatrogenic ureteral lesions are recognized during surgeries and 25% of the unrecognized cases of ureteral lesions lead towards th...

One of the major commercial applications of AI is in the rapidly expanding computer game industry. Virtually every game sold today has some sort of AI, from the "computer player" in a chess game to the machine-gun-toting enemies in a first-person shooter (FPS). Any virtual being that does not behave in a strictly pre-scripted manner has some sort of AI behind it. Sadly, however, the multi-billi...

98 There are many aspects of the geriatric day hospital which were not measured and sadly may never be measured. It is user friendly to patients, doctors, nurses and therapists. It may not be equipped with a CT/MRI scan on site but there are neither fast lifts nor revolving doors. To me, it makes the working life of a geriatrician exciting and brings in unique variation from the problems that w...