This last volume of the very handsome and exhaustive treatises on surgical operations deals chiefly with the variousspecial regions. Mr. Bland-Sutton writes eleven chapters on abdominal gynecology, and gives a great deal of interesting information with regard to pathology, with the clear illustrations which always accompany his writings. Operative methods are relegated to a quite secondary posi...

This article responds to five comments on my "Angry Birds" meta-analysis of video game influences on children (Ferguson, 2015, this issue). Given ongoing debates on video game influences, comments varied from the supportive to the self-proclaimed "angry," yet hopefully they and this response will contribute to constructive discussion as the field moves forward. In this reply, I address some mis...

Metallic films with subwavelength apertures, integrated into a semiconductor by metal-assisted chemical etch (MacEtch), demonstrate enhanced transmission when compared to bare semiconductor surfaces. The resulting "buried" metallic structures are characterized spectroscopically and modeled using rigorous coupled wave analysis. These composite materials offer potential integration with optoelect...

Emerging research suggests that commercial, off-the-shelf video games have potential applications in preventive and therapeutic medicine. Despite these promising findings, systematic efforts to characterize and better understand this potential have not been undertaken. Serious academic study of the therapeutic potential of commercial video games faces several challenges, including a lack of sta...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Recognize the various terms used in biostatistics. 2. Describe the choices that are required in designing a particular research study. 3. Understand the different types of data that may be obtained in any given study. 4. Identify which statistical tools are appropriate for evaluating the different types of da...

Video recordings were made of 67 children with cerebral palsy and 64 able bodied children eating soft boiled ('non-mashed') and mashed potato. Those children with cerebral palsy who had no speech, presumed to have poor oral motor function, took significantly longer to eat non-mashed than mashed potato. Children with cerebral palsy, especially those with no speech, were more likely to cough or c...

The American Psychiatric Association examined the scientific studies and concluded that there is sufficient evidence to worry about video games becoming addictive for some people. They were not entirely sure from the studies whether it matters if the game is online or not, or whether people might also become addicted to other Internet activities (like Facebook), so they decided to call the prob...