A FEW PSYCHO-SOMATIC BASE-LINES

Drawing Graphs on Few Lines and Few Planes

We investigate the problem of drawing graphs in 2D and 3D such that their edges (or only their vertices) can be covered by few lines or planes. We insist on straight-line edges and crossing-free drawings. This problem has many connections to other challenging graph-drawing problems such as small-area or small-volume drawings, layered or track drawings, and drawing graphs with low visual complex...

Co-operation between physician and psychiatrist in psycho-somatic medicine.

The Psycho-somatic Syndrome of Spurious Pregnancy after the Menopause.

Spurious pregnancy (false pregnancy or pseudocyesis) constitutes a subject of considerable practical importance not only for the general practitioner and obstetrician but also for the psychiatrist, as it presents one of the most impressive examples of the influence of emotional mechanisms on physical processes. The occurrence of this condition in humans and animals has attracted attention throu...

Panic attacks in COPD and the somato-psycho-somatic feedback.

encountered two articles on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which gave me an incentive for a comment. In the excellent review by MACKLEM [1], the role of a high respiratory rate in severe COPD is discussed, in particular with its consequence of dynamic hyperinflation and increased work of breathing. The author also addressed the need of proper instruction for the patients to avoid ...

On Sets Defining Few Ordinary Lines

Let P be a set of n points in the plane, not all on a line. We show that if n is large then there are at least n/2 ordinary lines, that is to say lines passing through exactly two points of P . This confirms, for large n, a conjecture of Dirac and Motzkin. In fact we describe the exact extremisers for this problem, as well as all sets having fewer than n−C ordinary lines for some absolute const...