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Albert Einstein: A Man for the Millenium?

ion: "Abstraction by deletion ... One carefully omits parts of the data describing the mathematical concepts ... to obtain the more abstract concept" (Saunders MacLane, ibid.). By dropping the assumptions of differentiability, one can extend the principle from theories based on differentiable manifolds to those based on topological manifolds; and by dropping the assumption of continuity the pri...

Albert Bandura: The Man and his Contributions to Educational Psychology

Patchy hair loss in an otherwise healthy man.

What diagnoses should be considered? The most important diagnosis to consider is alopecia areata. This is an immune-mediated form of hair loss that most commonly affects the scalp, but it can affect any hair-bearing site. It can occur in any ethnic group, both sexes and at any age, with an estimated lifetime risk of 1.7% in the general population. Other diagnoses to consider include tinea capit...

Sleep deprivation decreases the beard-hair growth in man.

Ten young men underwent a sleep deprivation of 48 h which resulted in a 19 percent decrease of beard-hair growth. This effect, reflecting the lowering of protein synthesis during sleep deprivation, was presumably related to hormonal disturbance, namely depression of growth hormone release, decrease of dihydroxytestosterone availability or increase of sympathetic tone and/or corticoids.

Albert Fry