If our lives were truly horrible and the prospects of their getting better hopelessly dim, we might not want to continue. Fortunately, most people are not in such dire straights. Most of us, as we say, " want to live " (henceforth, to survive). Not only do we want to survive, but under normal, relatively favorable circumstances most of us, it seems, knows well enough what it would mean to survi...

background and objective: the circle of willis (cow) supports adequate blood supply to the brain. the cardiovascular system, in the current study, is modeled using an equivalent electronic system focusing on the cow. method: in our previous study we used 42 compartments to model whole car- diovascular system. in the current study, nevertheless, we extended our model by using 63 compartments to ...

many countries are turning their attention to the use of explicit financial incentives to drive desired improvements in healthcare performance. however, we have only a weak evidence-base to inform policy in this area. the research challenge is to generate robust evidence on what financial incentives work, under what circumstances, for whom and with what intended and unintended consequences.

A case of compound comminuted fracture always requires particular care in its management, but as a matter of necessity does not require sucli a severe measure as amputation. But there are circumstances under which even this severe mode of treatment is resorted to. Although opinions vary as to the propriety of performing primary amputation in individual cases, yet it will be observed that some o...