Dekker and the virgin martyr

Michael Servetus Humanist and Martyr

there are not available the textbooks and reference works summarizing the fundamentals of the field as are found in older and more established sciences. Consequently, this reviewer has found it profitable to keep his copies of Progress in Biophysics near at hand as a general reference work. The present volume is a worthy addition, but it is feared that the price will discourage many individuals...

Apoptosis: It's No Laughing Martyr

Book Review apoptosis may play a role in the pathogenesis of AIDS. relation to the role of apoptosis in AIDS, to be refreshing when compared with other chapters in this and other books where " bald data " is presented and no real at-Apoptosis and the Immune Response. tempt is made to peer into the future and speculate Edited by Christopher D. Gregory. what the next piece and then the next piece...

Job Dekker: Hitting the scientific hi-Cs

Hadwen of Gloucester, Man, Medico, Martyr

A CRANK has been defined, probably by Bernard Shaw, champion of all cranks, as a person who holds and acts upon an opinion that is contrary to orthodox teaching, but it is claimed directly he has converted a sufficiently large number of his fellows to his point of view he ceases to be a crank. This is seldom true, as all worthy cranks have more than one arrow in their quiver. They have made the...

The Virgin Island Model

A continuous mass population model with local competition is constructed where every emigrant colonizes an unpopulated island. The population founded by an emigrant is modeled as excursion from zero of an one-dimensional diffusion. With this excursion measure, we construct a process which we call Virgin Island Model. A necessary and sufficient condition for extinction of the total population is...