90th Anniversary Dinner

The 90th anniversary of Andrija Štampar School of Public Health

HAPPY “90th” BIRTHDAY

IVF and embryo transfer for the treatment of human infertility has now resulted in the birth of over 4 million babies. The technique did not arise as a quantum event but was built on the efforts of many earlier workers in the fields of reproductive endocrinology and development. One should remember the famous saying of Isaac Newton: ‘If I have seen further than most, it is because I have stood ...

Who was standing at the cradle of phoniatrics? To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the name of our medical specialty.

Since the very beginnings of medicine, physicians have been concerned with the study of normal and the therapy of disturbed verbal communication. However, no professional name for their specific activities has been handed down. The ancient Athenian phonascoi and Roman phonasci were voice trainers and not physicians although they also advised the performers on dietetic and behavioral measures. T...

Reunion Dinner

as a success and it has been decided to repeat it this year. The dinner will be in the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus, London, W.I., on Saturday, 21st June, 1947, at 7-30 or 8 o'clock. Several Indian psychiatrists, members of the I.A.M.C., are temporarily in London; and this letter may catch the eye of others who propose to be in the U.K. during the summer on holiday or for post-gradua...

A Business Dinner Problem

We are given suppliers and customers, and a set of tables. Every evening of the forthcoming days, there will be a dinner. Each customer must eat with each supplier exactly once, but two suppliers may meet at most once. The number of customers and the number of suppliers who can sit together at a table are bounded above by fixed parameters. What is the minimum number of evenings to be scheduled ...