Operations on open book foliations

Operations Research Letters Book Review

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

A Text Book of Ophthalmic Operations

This book contains the teaching, on the operative surgery of the eye, of the staff of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and is based on the demonstrations given on the lectures. As such, it gives in great detail the operations ,cn the external regions of the eye, the lids, muscles, etc., and is excellent and practical. Cataract and glaucoma operations, which do not lend themselves to s...

A historic “open book fracture”

"Open book fracture" is rare. It is one of the most dangerous pelvic fractures. It is usually associated with abdominal, vascular and nervous injuries requiring a multidisciplinary team for its management. Its treatment is mainly surgical. Only some cases are published in recent literature. The mechanism is usually complex and the consequences usually dramatic. We report in this case a very rar...

Torsion and Open Book Decompositions

We show that if (B, π) is an open book decomposition of a contact 3–manifold (Y, ξ), then the complement of the binding B has no Giroux torsion. We also prove the sutured Heegaard-Floer c-bar invariant of the binding of an open book is non-zero.

Closing the Open (Face) Book