cancer is only moderately sensitive to radiation therapy and satisfactory tumor control requires fairly high delivered dose. Historically this has been achieved by combination of external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with intracavitary brachy-therapy. While dose distribution of EBRT is fairly homogenous, inverse-square law determines most of the dose distribution in brachytherapy. The dilemma has b...

There is a well-known opposition, about the ethics of belief, between the "Victorian" position heralded by Clifford's famous maxim:"It is wrong, always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything on insufficient evidence", and the so-called "pragmatist" view put forward by William James in his essay "The Will to Believe", according to which believing may be under the control of the will,...

MR KLEIN: The medical profession also has an important educative role in trying to persuade nurses and ancillary workers that, for example, the woman who stabbed her baby should not be in prison but in a mental hospital. The medical profession does not carry conviction in psychiatry because it has interpreted leadership in a terribly narrow sense of "We take the clinical decisions and that is w...

Traditionally, many statistical agencies protect magnitude tabular establishment data by cell suppression. Typical risk concepts, rules and techniques for cell suppression apply to data of an additive nature, i.e. sums of a quantitative variable. For tables presenting means, ratios or other indicators, it is often considered enough to suppress a cell only, if it relates to just a single unit. E...

OUR Lord returns here in the Sermon on the Mount a second time to speak of prayer. The first time He had spoken of the Father who is to be found in secret, and rewards openly, and had given us the pattern prayer (Matt. vi. 5-15). Here He wants to teach us what in all Scripture is considered the chief thing in prayer: the assurance that prayer will be heard and answered. Observe how He uses word...

The idea that learning disabilities are the result of deficiencies in one or more of the basic psychological processes required for learning is a core concept that needs to be maintained. However, problems in the application of traditional process-oriented approaches to diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities suggest a need to alter the manner in which these basic processes are concept...

Idiopathic neonatal priapism is rarely published. We report the case of a newborn presenting with priapism on the first day of life and reviewed the published data on the management and the follow up of this condition.

This study analyzes the puzzle of Hungarian economic drifting in a long run perspective. The underlying puzzle for the investigation is why bad policies are invariably popular and good policies unpopular, thus why political and economic rationality never overlap. The first part of the article summarizes in eight points the basic features of the postwar period. Then six lessons are offered, whic...

In contrast to a widely held belief among politicians and science managers, the course of science is unpredictable and difficult to steer. The reason is that management is based on the knowledge of today, whereas science is about the knowledge of tomorrow. As Sir Karl Popper (1957) remarked: ‘‘We cannot anticipate today what we shall know only tomorrow.’’ Anyone who specifies the key issues in ...