The management of traumatic disruption of the pelvic ring has become a focus of interest, the main question being whether such disruptions should be stabilised at operation. Stabilisation may be important for the survival of the patient, as has been suggested for femoral fractures, and it may also be desirable to improve the long-term functional results of such injuries. It is therefore necessa...

INTRODUCTION Four years have passed since the last comprehensive meeting was held to discuss directions in which the immunological discipline might contribute to an understanding of cancer problems, and it should be a measure of our progress to compare the content of the papers presented at that meeting with those delivered here. The earlier meeting did not have precisely the same objectives as...

Understanding the relationship between scientific productivity and research group size is important for deciding how science should be funded. We have investigated the relationship between these variables in the life sciences in the United Kingdom using data from 398 principle investigators (PIs). We show that three measures of productivity, the number of publications, the impact factor of the ...