DANIEL THOMAS QUIGLEY M.D. 1876-1968

Daniel Cutting and Aaron Quigley July , 2006

We introduce a light-weight middleware system based on tuple spaces and an accompanying distribution protocol (RUSSIAN) for building applications in wireless ad hoc networks. The system does not attempt to enforce strict semantics, instead offering “best effort” mechanisms for use by the applications. By tuning various protocol parameters, the system attempts to continually adapt these mechanis...

Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760–1808

DOROTHY A. STANSFIELD, Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760-1808, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xx, 306, Dfl.140.00/$54.00. Thomas Beddoes has been the subject of intermittent study, manifested through a succession of more or less specialized papers, mostly on his pneumatic studies. His political involvements have also been noticed, but usually in ways that do not reveal any substantial connexion betwee...

Thomas C. Hall, MD, FACP: in memoriam.

Thomas Christopher Hall, one of the founders of American medical oncology, teacher, and researcher, left this life in his ninety-third year. Tom was born in New York City, and had a difficult childhood growing up in the time of the Depression. Tom excelled academically, and his life changed dramatically when he was accepted as a student at Harvard College and then at Harvard Medical School. He ...

Thomas Earl Starzl, MD, PhD (1926–2017): Father of Transplantation

Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, was known to most as the “Father of Transplantation”—he laid the groundwork for an entire new field of medicine. Throughout his career he continued to make among the most significant, landmark advancements, from technically describing and perfecting the many variations of liver surgery, including transplantation, to identifying better ways to control organ rejection, ...

Thomas MacLagan's 1876 demonstration of the dramatic effects of salicin in rheumatic fever.