This paper highlights Adolphe Vorderman’s investigations of the causes of beriberi using epidemiological observations among prison inmates in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia) in the 1890s. His investigations are featured in the James Lind Library because of Vorderman’s scrupulous efforts to avoid bias. He built a number of methodological safeguards into his investigations, both to avoid ...

In many regions, the system of education is experiencing a personnel shortage, both quantitatively and qualitatively. High requirements for teaching staff determine necessity thoughtful scrupulous approach to development teachers’ potential. The research aims define concept regional potential develop indicators its analysis, which first step provide educational institutions with high-quality pe...

the methods employed today for the correction and publication of the old persian texts that come to be closely similar to the original, are greatly indebted to the attempts made by late allameh dehkhoda, allameh ghazvini, and of course dr. mohammad moin. since the method of correcting texts is in fact based on scrupulous scrutiny, thus, leaning on different sources, attempt has been made in thi...

A 49-year-old man presented with an incidentally detected right renal mass on a health examination. The abdominal computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a 3-cm right renal mass suspected of being a hypovascular tumor, such as papillary renal cell carcinoma, and an osteoblastic metastatic lesion on the right iliac bone. However, we missed a bone lesion at the time of diagnosis...

OBJECTIVE This paper reports on the long-term outcome of implant-supported posterior-zone prostheses in the first 35 consecutive, partially edentulous patients treated in the Implant Prosthodontic Unit (IPU) at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. METHODS A total of 106 Brånemark dental implants were placed in 46 posterior edentulous spans in 35 patients for the management of multiple...

Several adverse effects have been related to infertility treatments, such as cancer development. In particular, the relationship between infertility, reproductive strategies, and risk of gynecological cancers has aroused much interest in recent years. The evaluation of cancer risk among women treated for infertility is very complex, mainly because of many factors that can contribute to occurren...

This paper proposes a browser spoofing attack which can break the weakest link from the server to user, i.e., man-computerinterface, and hence defeat the whole security system of Internet transaction. In this attack, when a client is misled to an attacker’s site, or an attacker hijacks a connection, a set of malicious HTML files are downloaded to the client’s machine. The files are used to crea...

The structure of Indian education is top heavy and bottom weak. This is known as the inverse pyramid structure in the literature. This is an indication of a lacuna in the policy and reality in context of universal primary and elementary education. The aim is elusive now. Another side of this is free and compulsory education, a propagated policy of the government for quite a long time. Is it rea...

There is a bizarre piece of medical hypocrisy : in the preface, the names and qualifications of the doctors concerned are splendidly rolled out. In the text, however, they are given pseudonyms, " in the best and most scrupulous tradition of the medical profession Both men must be a shade too gentle since they left their patient at large after she had attempted to strangle her daughter. Surprisi...

The advantages of this system are. (1) Should the patient in a capsule require attention during treatment he is accessible without undergoing complete decompression. (2) The treatment of one patient can be controlled without interrupting that of others. (3) A capsule can remain empty while the others are in use, so that scrupulous cleaning can be performed after use by an infected patient. (4) ...