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Me Bastard, You Bastard: Multiculturalism at Home and Abroad

JAPANKA AND OBA-CHAN From Rovinj's post office to the old harbor it is some three hundred paces. You pass a half-dozen cafes. With a slight effort you can make it an even dozen. A shot of Istra Bitter here, a Pelinkovac there, Malvazija, Malvasia, before you know it, it's time for dinner. Yasuko does not take that route, I know. Two boys are chasing each other across the small slab of concrete behind the news kiosk. As she passes, they glance up and, without ceasing to run after each other in circles that now encompass her, begin calling, Japanka, japankal The road curves around the ancient movie house, now locked up, the words Kino and Cine fading on the crumbling facade, a heavy Habsburg rectangle, fifteen feet from the water. On file at City Hall are numerous ambitious and unrealized plans to resurrect it. Its solid stone appearance, like most old houses here, is belied by the bricks showing where the plaster has worn away. This is the only point of land visible between the old harbor and the new, where Austrians, Italians, Germans, and Croats from Zagreb keep their yachts for infrequent weekend sails. Before the 1991 war, many Serbs from Belgrade had yachts here, too. I catch sight of her as she rounds the corner, with the unfortunate floating pizzeria to her left. She must see the old harbor in full view now, a semi-circle of dappled one-, two-, and three-storied struc tures set thirty feet back, enough space for hundreds of small tables and thousands of chairs, a narrow paved road, and a wide walk beside the water. The huge stones are worn smooth, slick. There is no barrier. Walk to the edge and you may fall in, though more like ly you'll hit one of the tiny boats that, tied together and stacked three and four deep, cover the first fifty feet of the water's surface except during the early morning fishing hours. Until a few years ago, Ligio Zanini kept a boat here. Every morning he would collect his nets, exchanging a word or two of rovignese with his compatri ots, and set out down the coast between Saint Catherine's and Red Island, named for the old brickworks. Thanks to his collection of

Perceived exertion responses to novel elbow flexor eccentric action in women and men.

The primary aim was to describe perceived exertion responses to different intensities of eccentric exercise in women and men. 42 adults (21 men and 21 women, 7 per condition) completed elbow extension exercises with a weight corresponding to 80%, 100%, or 120% of maximal voluntary concentric strength. Total work was equated by manipulating the number of repetitions in the 80% (N = 45), 100% (N = 36), and 120% (N = 30) conditions. A two-way ANOVA showed significant main effects for the intensity and sex factors. Perceived exertion ratings were strongly dependent on exercise intensity, and women reported lower RPEs than men. A separate three-way mixed model ANOVA that included a repetition factor showed that perceived exertion ratings increased similarly across the first 30 repetitions in all exercise conditions. Significant partial correlations were found between mean RPE during the eccentric exercise bout, and the mean intensity of delayed-onset muscle pain measured from 12- to 72-h postexercise after controlling for the relative exercise intensity (r12.3 = 0.28) or the maximum concentric strength of the elbow flexors (r12.3 = 0.33). 1) for both women and men, there is a positive association between the intensity of eccentric exercise performed with the elbow flexors and RPE; 2) perceived exertion ratings increase significantly then plateau when repeated eccentric muscle actions are performed at constant, submaximal absolute intensities; 3) women rate eccentric exercise performed at the same intensity (relativized to MVC-C) as being less effortful compared with men; and 4) RPE during eccentric exercise can account for a small but significant amount of variability in delayed-onset muscle pain after statistically controlling for differences in strength or relative intensity.

Medicine in Dallas 100 Years Ago

Marvin J. Stone, MD: Good morning. Last month Dr. John Fordtran delivered the Alpha Omega Alpha lecture at Southwestern Medical School. For those of you who may not know, AOA is the national honor medical society to which top medical students are elected in recognition of superior scholarship. Many members of our own medical staff are members of AOA. In addition, some of the newly elected medical students will be joining our housestaff in July. For a long time I've thought it interesting to observe the subjects selected by esteemed colleagues when they have the widest possible latitude, that is, the topic of their choice. John chose to speak about medicine in Dallas 100 years ago at the AOA banquet. We are fortunate that he has agreed to give this talk again at Baylor this morning. Now, do not think that the subject he selected was accidental. It was arrived at after much contemplation. Most of us know John as the chief of medicine at Baylor for 17 years and current president of the Baylor Research Institute. I shan't dwell on some of his other activities, such as being acknowledged as one of the leading investigators and educators in gastroenterology, or being one of the 2 founding editors of the best textbook on gastroenterology, or being awarded virtually every prize given in the field as well as several honorary degrees. During the past year, he was elected to fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians of London. Despite these considerable accomplishments and worldwide recognition, I submit that John Fordtran's principal interest is medical history. Why? Not just because of the topic chosen for his AOA lecture, which you will hear this morning. There is in fact precedent for my claim. Twenty-one years ago, almost to the day, John delivered the presidential address at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, another occasion when he could have spoken on any topic he wished. He chose to speak on the life and career of Samuel James Meltzer, founder and first president of that august organization, which was established in 1907. Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is overwhelming. It is a pleasure to introduce John Fordtran, sometime gastroenterologist, but really eminent medical historian! John S. Fordtran, MD: Thank you, Marvin, for that wonderful introduction and for your own interest in medical history and for the effort you have made to teach the history of medicine to our students, residents, and staff. Today, I will try to describe what medicine was like in Dallas 100 years ago. Actually, the time frame to be discussed is from 1890 through 1920, and I will also say a few words about the removal of Baylor College of Medicine from Dallas to Houston in 1943.

Is parallelism for you?

This article offers practical, basic rules of thumb that can help you predict if parallelism might be worthwhile, given your application and the effort you want to invest. The techniques presented for estimating likely performance gains are drawn from the experiences of hundreds of computational scientists and engineers at national labs, universities, and research facilities. The information is more anecdotal than experimental, but it reflects the very real problems that must be overcome if parallel programming is to yield useful benefits.

What computational scientists and engineers should know about parallelism and performance

Parallel computing sounds straightforward: Apply multiple CPUs to solve bigger, more complex problems and get results faster. Unfortunately, the experiences of computational scientists and engineers show that the price tag for parallelism is high. It is possible to spend months of effort, only to find that the parallel program runs slower on six CPUs than the original version did on one. Should you make the investment? This article provides practical rules of thumb for predicting if parallelism is likely to be worthwhile, given the nature of your application and the amount of effort you want to invest. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ah, the smell of it

Why does your machine shop bear that distinctive odour of…Monday morning? There are literally schmillions of reasons! Norman King, Product Specialist at Mobil, explains that the microbiological world is getting up your nose, but with a little effort you can come up smelling of roses.

The 1990 Harry Bruce Legislative Fellowship

The experiences described here recount my involvement in the various legislative processes and measure the tangible knowledge gained. It is most difficult to convey the impact of these experiences on my values and insights. This of course is not an uncommon phenomenon, it's encountered daily in dental education. However, probably one of the most significant outcomes of this experience is my expanded appreciation for the role of the AADS Division of Government Affairs in advocating for the concerns of dental education and the betterment of the oral health in our society. They serve and represent us well. However, their success is only as good as the support we, as dental educators, are willing to provide in the legislative process. A major step to the fulfillment of our obligation is simply understanding that we can play a most important role. The next step is informing the AADS of your interest and willingness to support their efforts and becoming a legislative advocate. And finally, when called upon to assist in a legislative effort you must be prepared to respond in a timely manner. I am satisfied that I have fulfilled my goals for the fellowship experience. It is my assessment that the goals of the Association were also met. I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to immediately implement my new knowledge and skills. Since the completion of my fellowship experience I have stayed in touch with the issues and served as a contact person and resource at my institution.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Plastic Surgery Wars-Reply

In Reply .—Both of your letters are composed of an interesting blend of idealism and irony, a touch of sermonizing and satire, and a dash of humor designed to illustrate and to emphasize your point of view. We enjoyed the second version of your letter a great deal more than the first, which we have not published and which you felt I had misinterpreted as an attack by one specialty on another. We appreciate the effort you have put into this communication and agree with some of the points you make. Many of us can remember when advertising and marketing seemed foreign to the practice of a surgeon. The norm of the contemporary medical market place would have been grounds for censure by one's peers less than two decades ago. There is too much emphasis (in some regions) on the superficial trappings of a successful practice and too little effort given to

How to keep up with the medical literature: VI. How to store and retrieve articles worth keeping.

The human mind is not well suited to storing and retrieving large amounts of infrequently used information. An effective personal filing system is needed if good articles that we encounter in our efforts to keep up to date are to be kept handy for future reference. Many options exist for the creation of a personal filing system. In this article, we assist the reader in the development of a tailor-made system that is based on making key decisions that strike a balance between filing needs and the lack of enthusiasm that most of us have for filing. The complexity of the system should match the number of purposes that your file must serve. Important additional considerations include how much time and effort you are willing to spend; where and how you will house your collection; how many articles you want to keep in the file; what standards you will apply in selecting material for your file; what subject headings are most appropriate for your articles; whether you will need to cross-reference; and what access you will have to personal computers.

The Unique Role of Peer Review Journals

A carefully structured report was sent to my editorial office and then transmitted to out-of-office consultants for editorial peer review. The detailed comments of the referees were submitted to the investigators; W. Y. Chen, PhD, of Denver, the distinguished senior author, responded on behalf of his colleagues with a revised manuscript and these comments, believe that the revised paper has been improved greatly after many of the suggestions of the referees were implemented. We hope that our readers will be as critical as our referees have been so that the quality of our studies can be continuously examined. Many thanks to you again for every effort you have made in improving this manuscript. Dr Chen's views of the process of a responsible, constructive editorial review and his reliance on a critical readership provide a number of insights into the indispensable role of peer review journals. Clinicians are buffeted daily

Accounting Principles: The Board and Its Problems

It is a pleasure to participate in a small way in the effort you are putting forth-towards gaining a greater understanding of the accounting process-all of which will contribute importantly to the development of sound accounting principles. Too many discussions of accounting principles and too many decisions about accounting principles have been made in a vacuum or on the grounds of expediency. They have been made without the benefit of empirical evidence-evidence systematically researched, evidence rigorously interpreted. I know that you would agree with me that we should have no illusions concerning the speed with which measurable progress in accounting principles can be made. But it is nonetheless encouraging to see that beginnings are being made in empirical research in accounting, witnessed by the discussions that are being held here at the University. I am convinced that, in the long run, only by this kind of effort can continued progress in developing accounting principles be accomplished. Although I have had only a brief chance to review some of the papers you are discussing, I have seen enough to want sincerely to encourage you to continue these fine efforts. For the past few years I have been concerned, as some of you have surely been, over the questions and criticisms about accounting principles appearing in the press; about the doubts which such comments must arouse among people outside our profession; and about the possibly divisive influences which could develop within the profession over the issues which seem to be of concern. There is no need to go over again what is familiar ground to all of you. Let me just recall to your minds such a statement as that made by the