Conversations With Jeffrey Dach, MD 52 ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, JULY/AUGUST 2014 VOL. 20, 4 Jeffrey Dach, MD, was originally trained in clinical medicine and worked as an emergency room doctor in Illinois. He is specialty board-certified in diagnostic and interventional radiology and has 25 years of experience serving the Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida, with Radiology Associates...

This paper examines genre trends in the top 50 grossing films at the US box office each year from 1991 to 2010, focussing on the frequency and rank of different genres, the box office gross and release patterns of films in different genres, and the release profile of Hollywood studios. The results show a narrowing of the range of genres at the highest rankings, with fantasy/science fiction movi...

in space, with atoms moving about in a stately dance. They spin the structures mentally to examine them from all angles, perhaps twisting each molecule until a bond pops open and another snaps into place. Such movies play inside the minds of most chemists because they offer a way to visualize how reactions happen. “The unifying thought experiment across all disciplines of chemistry is to imagin...

This article presents a new method to create maps that chart changes across a cinematic narrative. These are unlike narrative spaces previously discussed in the literature—they are abstract, holistic, dynamic representations based on objective criteria. The analysis considers three films (All About Eve, Inception, and MASH) by counting the co-occurrences of main characters within scenes, and 12...

Robotic surgery – a taste of Hollywood? S St ta an ni is sl la av v C Cz zu ud de ek k Videosurgery Robotic surgery is a new and promising technique. Numerous authors believe it to be as revolutionary as laparoscopy or thoracoscopy [1]. Let us try to analyze if this is really the case. Multiple instruments , very useful in some cases, have been introduced. They are still being developed and are...