Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Haematology, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Pediatric Oncology/ Hematology, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Division of Haematol...

We are already into the fall season with winter rapidly approaching. As always, we have many changes to report at the Diagnostic Laboratory. We ended our 1998-1999 fiscal year with a 23 percent increase in accessions compared to the previous year. We are constantly working on improving our diagnostic testing ability, frequently by using molecular techniques. Some of these new advances are detai...

One’s mood influences one’s inclination to either rely on one’s current beliefs or search for different ones. Since mood may reflect one’s failures and achievements from interacting with the environment, perhaps this influence is working to our advantage. We propose a simple agent architecture, where the behaviors of learning from or teaching other agents are dependent on the agent’s current mo...

1Haematology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science/SA Pathology and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia; 2School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; 3Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane, Australia; 4School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; and 5Division of Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Aust...

How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource policies to practices. Results show that a small minority of employers are taking measures to enhance productivity (training programmes) or brin...

The Chaplain and the Social Worker Even if we disregard the opinion of those who believe that the most important function of a chaplain in a mental hospital is to run the patients' library, I think we must admit that a chaplain's duties are such that he must perforce be very much involved in attending to the social needs of patients and staff. I should feel sorry however, for the newly appointe...

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