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50th Anniversary Special Issue of Vision Research – Volume 2

This is the second of two volumes celebrating 50 years of Vision Research. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vision Research, we invited knowledgeable, productive, and respected scientists who have been contributors to our field throughout the last quarter century, still active professionally and sympathetic to Vision Research as evidenced by having recently published in the journal (adapted...

Centennial anniversary volume of the American Neurological Association 1875–1975

Volume commemorating the 75th anniversary of G. A. Lindeboom

establishments for recognition of Scottish degrees, and the slow decline of the Scottish, clinically-based medical curriculum as its laboratory-based German counterpart rose to displace it in popularity. The final chapter on the twentieth century gives a valuable account of the development of state medicine in Scotland, including a section on the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, and the s...

More than one way to blanch a lizard.

A daptation to the prevailing environment results from Darwinian natural selection (1). Physical, behavioral, physiological, and biochemical adaptations have been documented in laboratory experiments and in nature (2–7), but it has been more difficult to identify the genes and the molecular mechanisms that underlie adaptation. Recently, however, genes responsible for adaptive evolution have bee...

Happy Anniversary!

On this day in 1987, shares of Procter & Gamble were a tad weak, trading down 23 1/4 to 61. Philip Morris was off 15 1/8 at 87 1/2, Disney fell 19 1/8 to 46 and shares of Dupont were also under pressure, falling 18 1/2 to 80. The DJIA dropped 508 on volume of 605 million shares. The (perhaps apocryphal) story is told that Fed Chairman Greenspan -not wishing to unsettle jittery markets by alteri...