D espite the increasing number of scientific publications, many physicians find themselves with less and less time to read what others have written. Selection, reading, and critical appraisal of publications is, however, necessary to stay up to date in one's field. This is also demanded by the precepts of evidence-based medicine (1, 2). Besides the medical content of a publication, its interpre...

An accurate low-energy dispersive parametrization of the scalar Kπ form factor was constructed some time ago in terms of a single parameter guided by the Callan-Treiman low-energy theorem. A similar twice subtracted dispersive parametrization for the vector Kπ form factor will be investigated here. The robustness of the parametrization of these two form factors will be studied in great detail. ...

Florence Nightingale, the 'lady with the lamp' became the image of 'heroic womanhood' (Bostridge 2004) when she returned from the Crimean War an iconic figure and ever since she has remained fated to wear the mantel of nursings' leading light. But she wasn't the only woman who made their mark or who undertook to risk their live caring for the sick and injured, wounded and dying in the Crimea. S...

The chloroformist to Queen Victoria for the 1853 and 1857 childbirths of, respectively, Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, Dr. John Snow (1813–1858) is widely celebrated as the “Father of Epidemiology.” Snow’s research helped London combat the waves of cholera which swept the city (right). Sadly, a brain hemorrhage felled John Snow at 45 years of age. Had Snow lived to face Abram Belskie (19...

When most patients visit physicians in a clinic or a hospital, they are asked about their medical history and related medical tests’ results which might not exist or might simply have been lost over time. In emergency situations, many patients suffer or sadly die because of lack of pertinent medical information. Patient’s Health information (PHI) saved by Electronic Medical Record (EMR) could b...

The implementation of voice dialogs enables the realization of some of the aims of modern Human Computer Interaction (HCI) services more successfully and efficiently. Sadly the multimodal Lithuanian HCIs carried by the most natural form of communication-speech are still in the prototype stage and no services are provided to end user at the time of writing. This paper describes an experimental e...

Documents in digital formats are increasingly becoming a common form of expression for anything from rants and opinions to transaction records and contracts. Archiving such documents for the long term, particularly when their only form is digital, can be very important. Sadly, the principal digital expression of an author’s intent, the digital signature, is not fit for long-term archives of doc...

Although child sexual abuse (CSA) is recognized as a serious violation of human well-being and of the law, no community has yet developed mechanisms that ensure that none of their youth will be sexually abused. CSA is, sadly, an international problem of great magnitude that can affect children of all ages, sexes, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic classes. Upon invitation, this current publi...

One of the basic properties of the Clifford algebra gives an explicit basis for it in terms of a basis of the underlying vector space (Theorem 1 below), and another one provides a vector space isomorphism between the Clifford algebra and the exterior algebra of the same vector space (the so-called Chevalley map, Theorem 2 below). While both of these properties appear in standard literature such...

The discovery and development of a new drug can be a lengthy and expensive business (Fig. 1). The starting point is the active compound as synthesized by the medicinal chemist and screened by the pharmacologist. There then follows a series of complex tests and evaluations to produce a satisfactory formulation and sufficient data for presentation to regulatory authorities such as the Committee o...