Alkali Inspectorate still at first base

Are light alkali metals still metals under high pressure ?

The extended Hubbard Hamiltonian on a bcc lattice is studied at half-filling and for a finite hopping between next-nearest-neighbours, in mean-field approximation. An ionic insulating broken-symmetry phase is predicted for any hydrogenoid bcc solid in the density range 1.0 < r s < 2.6. The occurrence of an ionic phase would explain the failure to achieve hydrogen metallization at high pressures...

View from an inspectorate. Inspectorate of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.

Fractures at the Base of the First Metacarpal Bone.

A variety of fractures occur at the base of the first metacarpal bone, the best known being that described by Bennett in 1882. A group of more comminuted fractures also involving the carpo-metacarpal joint were later described by Rolando (1910). Transverse fractures at the lower end of the metacarpal bone were mentioned by Roberts (1938) in a review of all fractures occurring in the hand. Much ...

Neurology: still in first gear.

Editor – Jones et al (Clin Med October 2013 pp 460–4) provide a revealing analysis of the distribution of patients with diabetes and kidney disease across the health service. They show that applying traditional referral guidelines which use arbitrary estimated glomerular fi ltration rate (eGFR) criteria leads to patients who should be managed in primary care remaining under nephrologists and vi...

Evaluation of moral case deliberation at the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate: a pilot study

BACKGROUND Moral case deliberation (MCD) as a form of clinical ethics support is usually implemented in health care institutions and educational programs. While there is no previous research on the use of clinical ethics support on the level of health care regulation, employees of regulatory bodies are regularly confronted with moral challenges. This pilot study describes and evaluates the use ...