by Bruce Maggki After a mediocre 2-3 road trip, the' Albany State basketball team returned home Tuesday night, hoping that their home court would turn things around. But the magic of Univcrsity.Gym did not hold, as Harry Shcehy and Fred Dittman put on their own magic show as they led Williams College to a 75-71 over Albany. The win broke Albany's 12 game home winning streak, and dropped the Dan...

Opinions diverge as to whether or not regional anaesthesia delays the diagnosis of evolving acute compartment syndrome. Withholding regional anaesthesia from patients with painful orthopaedic injuries may be ethically unacceptable, however. In this report, we describe a case of acute compartment syndrome in a 4-year old child who underwent resection of a forearm osteochondroma. Analgesia was sa...

The day starts at 8:00 h with a clinical session in the Respiratory Service of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona, Spain; from 8:00 to 9:00 h, a colleague discusses and explains to the rest of the department the most important articles published in the past month in his assigned respiratory journal. I run out at 8:55 h as I am about to start a respiratory outpatient clinic, whe...

INTRODUCTION The “Hanford Scenario” refers to an acute accidental release of radioactive I from the stack of the Hanford (USA) Purex Chemical Separations Plant that occurred between 2 and 5 of September 1963 (BIOMASS, 1999). From the environmental impact point of view it is a very interesting case study for the evaluation of computational systems that simulate the atmospheric dispersion, deposi...

Given the well-known difficulties in defining and detecting fatigue, it is a real challenge to incorporate it into either traffic or criminal law. Finnish traffic law forbids fatigued driving "only" on a general level concerning the driver's fitness to drive. We present several comments from Finnish traffic and local police officers regarding their own experiences of driving while fatigued. The...