STATISTICS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. By Frederick J. Moore, Frank B. Kramer, and Robert G. Knowles. Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company, 1951. viii + 113 pp. The widespread need for more and improved techniques among medical investigators scarcely needs mentioning. This small book offers the essentials of commonly used statistical methods with a minimum of verbiage. The emphasis is placed on unders...

The prevalent assertion that scientific progress is encumbered by the problem of communication gains special validity when directed to the medical sciences. So profuse is the number of publications appearing that keeping abreast of one's specialty is difficult, reading the literature on other subjects a near impossibility. Yet most authorities would agree with Fremont-Smith that "nature is of o...

In the twenty-first century, the field of business and finance has become a media spectacle. Not only have advances in technology changed the ways in which audiences engage with business information, the pervasiveness of internet and cable television networks has led to the emergence of new hybrid forms of business news discourse, blending verbiage, images, graphics, audio and video clips. Comb...

Introduction: In the United States, 840,000 children are reported missing annually. While no concise data is available on incidence from healthcare facilities, infant and child abductions elopement events pose a high risk to infants hospital staff. Following an update policy at tertiary care in New York, hospital’s emergency preparedness team conducted full-scale drill. The drill included input...

Agricultural populations are a popular target for research due to the industry's dangerous conditions, unique work environments, and youth-including workforce. However, reaching recruiting eligible participants is challenging expensive when compared other industries. We conducted two-phase, multi-week paid advertising campaign on Facebook.com , varying delivery time, imagery, verbiage, targetin...

paintings, complemented by quotations of the artist, are a highlight of the book. Patrick Lacoste's discussion of psychoanalytic approaches to pain is dense and difficult. He discusses three separate phenomena-psychogenic bodily pain, neurotic psychical pain and psychotic suffering. He depicts psychogenic pain as a defence, an avoidance of an encounter with something even more unbearable. His t...

Amongst the huge literature concerning emergence, reductionism and mechanism, there is a role for analysis of the underlying mathematical constraints. Much of the speculation, confusion, controversy and descriptive verbiage might be clarified via suitable modelling and theory. The key ingredients we bring to this project are the mathematical notions of definability and invariance, a computabili...

283 Volume 14, Number 2 online resources are available for the students including animations, interactive case studies and quiz banks. In addition, instructor resources are also accessible with PowerPoint slides, worksheets, and lesson plans. Reading this textbook and performing the learning activities was very comfortable and intuitive. The larger type and word spacing, the formatting and subh...

BACKGROUND It is important that referring physicians and other treating clinicians properly understand the final reports from diagnostic tests. The aim of the study was to investigate whether referring physicians interpret a final report for a myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) test in the same way that the reading nuclear medicine physician intended. METHODS After viewing final reports ...

Hinsie, M.D. The Macmillan Company, New York. 22s. 6d. Perhaps the most remarkable feature about this remarkable book is its choice of title, for it would ?e hard to find a parallel for it, in its combination ?f flamboyant style and confusing content. No doubt Professor Hinsie understands his own Particular brand of psychopathological theory, but is difficult for the reader to do so. Lip servic...