However, there is one area of academic surgical training that has been sadly neglected. That area—the training of surgical residents to become facile in the critical review of surgical literature—has been inadequate. It is almost as if we, as surgical educators, expect residents to learn the critical evaluation skills of peer review by osmosis—merely observing mentors and then practicing on the...

Many statues of doctors have been erected in Paris. Sadly, many bronze monuments were deliberately destroyed during the Second World War, including memorials to Claude Bernard, Broca, Charcot, Pean, Raspail and Ricord, and to Berlioz who was a medical student in Paris. Only those of Bernard and Berlioz were replaced after the war. Bronzes of Bichat, Clemenceau, Pinel and the Barons Larrey (Domi...

of 48, of Dr. Brian McConnell, one of Bristol's best known and respected practitioner5, I He will be sadly missed by his very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, not oflb in the medical profession but in the broader social world beyond it. A personal friendship which was to last for over twenty years began during the v^f in a disused Cornish sea-side boarding house where, as fellow office...

We compare two derivations of a popular formula for the tidal despinning rate, and emphasise that both are strongly limited to the case of a vanishing inclination and a certain (sadly, unrealistic) law of frequency-dependence of the quality factor. One method is based on the MacDonald torque, the other on the Darwin torque. Fortunately, the second approach is general enough to accommodate both ...

The best stage in a scientist s career is ... when they can still do chemistry in the lab with their own hands. The biggest problem that scientists face is ...—sadly enough—to focus on science. The best advice I have ever been given is ... not to get frustrated over problems but to come up with respective solutions (J. M. J. Fr chet). A good work day begins with ... breakfast with the family, r...

Allowing for the inclusion of the parity operator, it is possible to construct a model of an oscillator whose Hamiltonian admits an exact square root which is rather different from the conventional approach based on creation and annihilation operators. We outline such a model, the method of solution and some generalisations. 03.65.Ge, 03.65.Fd Typeset using REVTEX In memory of Lorella M Jones w...

......I thank Editor in Chief Erik Altman and Associate Editor in Chief Lieven Eeckhout for inviting me to share my experiences leading to the EckertMauchly Award. Nobody wins this award on his own (sadly, this gender reference is correct: it has been awarded 35 times, all to men). Many people contributed to the achievements that led to the award, and my biggest fear in writing this is that for...

The workshop's website raises the interesting question of whether the original "No Silver Bullet" article [2] was optimistic, pessimistic, or sadly, realistic. This position paper follows the direction presented in David Harel's paper [3]: although we agree with many of its individual points, the paper present a far gloomier assessment of the situation than seems appropriate. In other words, we...

Lombardy, as it is sadly known, the Italian region which has been most affected by SARS-CoV-2 virus. In fact, first main sites of pandemic in Italy were identified precisely this area – specifically, provinces Lodi, Crema and Bergamo (and, precisely, Seriana Valley). To better understand intensity severity outcomes infection Lombardy and, more province Bergamo, a group researchers from CST-Cent...

Over half a million women around the world die each year from conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth (WHO, 2004). The vast majority of these deaths occur in Asia and Africa, areas where prenatal care and delivery services are lacking and a woman’s nutritional status is often compromised. Sadly, the majority of women die from conditions that are preventable and could be addressed with pr...