Regulating Innovative Medicine: Fitting Square Pegs in round Holes

Looking for TALENT in all the wrong places! Finding the talent you need!

Defining Talent Let’s define talent as a combination of three things what we know via training, education and experience, what we like to do, and what we can handle in terms of complexity, and then, let’s define jobs in the same way what you must know, what you must do, and what level of complexity is involved. Once this is done, we can easily put round pegs in round holes, square pegs in squar...

The Reliability and Validity of the Wallin Peg Boards

Institute of Child Welfare, University of Minnesota The Wallin series of performance tests designed for use with very young children consists of four boards, each measuring 3 by 14 inches, % of an inch thick. Each board contains recesses for 6 pegs, similar in size but varying as to form. Board A includes only round pegs, Board B only square pegs, in Board C three round and three square pegs ar...

Pounding Square Pegs into round Holes: Another Look at the Neoclassical Theory of Predatory Pricing

For more than forty years, economists have routinely rejected the postulate that economic theory should be realistic. Ever since Milton Friedman sketchily outlined a positive methodology for economics, most students of our science have come to endorse Friedman’s view and have claimed that the only quality standard of economic reasoning was its predictive power. Good theories yield fairly correc...

Medical clergy: square pegs in holy holes?

Virtual Wedging In Three Dimensional Peg Insertion Tasks

Quasi-static wedging of three-point contacts is investigated, wherein the concepts of virtual and redundant wedging due to a resultant force falling into a friction cone are proposed. We consider the fully-started case of a square peg and hole consisting of two point-surface contacts and one line-line contact. An analysis of the wedging diagram for this highly constrained configuration is carri...