Adopting new technologies alters a hospital’s risk of liability for adverse medical events. Using 1990-1993 data from Florida hospitals, we identify all in-hospital incidents leading to malpractice claims against the hospital and physicians. Hospital innovativeness is measured by constructing a Baker-Spetz technology index in which the 22 included services are weighted by their relative rarity....

A videogame based on the Sherlock Holmes’ stories by Arthur Conan Doyle is an interesting design challenge, which commercial games have tackled only half-heartedly. This paper discusses this challenge by examining the game design strategies across preexisting games, then proposes a new set of strategies that would help players become the dweller of 221B Baker Street. The design critique of the ...

Using Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff relations, the squeeze and harmonicoscillator time-displacement operators are given in the form exp[δI ] exp[α(x)] exp[β(x∂)] exp[γ(∂)], where α, β, γ, and δ are explicitly determined. Applications are discussed. Email: [email protected]

Little has been published regarding the treatment of patients with long-established capsular contracture after previous submuscular or subglandular breast augmentation. This study reviews 7 years of experience in treating established capsular contracture after augmentation mammaplasty by relocating implants to the "dual-plane" or partly subpectoral position. A retrospective chart review was per...