Orbital osteomas are benign, slow growing bony lesions, typically originating from the adjacent frontal or ethmoid sinuses [1]. Median age of presentation is 37 years, and M: F ratio is reported at 1.6-1.8:1 [2]. Isolated osteomas are most commonly incidental findings and of little clinical significance, though by size or proximity to other orbital structures they can produce symptoms, as detai...

The world is occasionally shocked by the failure of physicians to act in a moral and responsible manner. During World War II, there were appalling atrocities committed in the name of nationalism by some German doctors. In 1948, the newly formed World Medical Association met in Geneva to draw up a declaration which would serve as an international code of ethics and help to impress on newly quali...

How matters are framed by the language we use is important to the messages communicated, as it affects how we think about and act on those messages.6 How we use words such as ‘sustainable’ in framing humanity’s current situation in relation to the environment is important. ‘Sustainability’ was defined by Brundtland in terms of sustainable development as “the management of environmental resource...

Declaration (revised edition of 2004) and in principle undergo scrutiny of an independent IRB which reviews ethical issues of the human experiment. But, in clinical studies, the approval of the IRB and patient’s consent must be received and stated on paper.” We must change our guidelines according to the revised act by changing ‘clinical studies’ to “human subjects research.” Some researchers m...

About 40 years ago, in a gesture of civic enlightenment, the United States Congress passed legislation that converted the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA; in existence since 1915) to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The Space Act, no doubt in partial response to the launching of the first near-Earth satellite, Sputnik, by the Soviet Union, established NASA...

In this retrospective, interventional case report of a 40 year-old woman with Stickler Syndrome, we present a novel use of dermis fat graft to manage an externally exposed scleral buckle that was refractory to other methods of management. Dermis fat graft is a relatively robust material that can be effectively utilized to rescue an exposed scleral buckle. This case presentation conforms to the ...

Of the many factors which affect animal production, wildlife is one of the few which has rarely been considered by the Australian Society of Animal Production. A variety of non-domesticated mammals are closely associated with the livestock industries and those which cause production losses are referred to as vertebrate pests in this contract. In some States this definition is carried further by...

We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as “prepayment”; the agent receives the completing half after delivering the service. By forward induction, cooperation is incentive-compatibly self-enforcing. The indenture pe...