In 1962, J.J. Collins from the United States Naval Medical Research Laboratory published an unusual case of air embolism precipitated by decompression in The New England Journal of Medicine [1962;266:595-598]. The case was unusual because it was the first where multiple pulmonary cysts were discovered after a successful recompression treatment. Although various hypotheses were put forward by th...

This book is an accompaniment to the computer software package mathStatica (which runs as an add-on to Mathematica). The book comes with two CD-ROMS: mathStatica, and a 30-day trial version of Mathematica 4.1. The mathStatica CD-ROM includes an applications pack for doing mathematical statistics, custom Mathematica palettes and an electronic version of the book that is identical to the printed ...

R. East and A. Hogg [J. Economic Psychol. (2000)] suggest that Governments should use advertising to increase consumers' product search, price vigilance, demand for quality and complaining in order to increase competition and to improve the state of the economy. Despite their appeal, these ideas are based on set of questionable assumptions. Speci®cally, East and Hogg assume that: consumers are ...

Simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax is a very rare clinical event, comprising approximately 1% of all spontaneous pneumothoraces. Clinical signs and symptoms may vary from mild chest pain and dyspnea to severe respiratory failure; nevertheless immediate treatment is mandatory as this condition can deteriorate and progress to tension pneumothorax. An underlying lung disease has been ...