EUGENE G. BLACKFORD

Eugene Garfield

Thisessaydiscusseslupus, an imnnme-systemdysfunctionthat affects may, especiallyyoung women, but is recognized by all too few. Its multiple manifestations have been baffling to researchers for over 100years; only rexently have the tools of molecular biology and immunogenetics reveafed substantial new information on its mechanism of autoimmunity. Still, the ukimate trigger for lupus remains a my...

Current Comments ” I EUGENE

Anyone growing up in a city, especially in tenements, has encountered cockroaches. From childhood I remember my mother clobbering them with a shoe or a newspaper. Looking back, I marvel at how mothers in slums managed to keep apartments free of them. Even in modem high rises, these inseets are indefatigable--often outwitting regulas extermination squads. However, what I encountered as a child w...

Current Comments ” EUGENE

Mew-analyses and their proper place in medical literature are explained along with how they differ fromtraditional literature reviews. Both the qualitative and quantitative amccts of meta-analvsis are consid-ered in relation to studying the results of clinical tri This issue [1 February 1991] includes ameta-analysis of the use of steroids in treat-ing chronic obstructive pulmona...

The Eugene Rasmusson Symposium

2 Eugene Allgower ,

The basic problem discussed here is the exploitation of symmetry in solving linear systems of equations which are equivariant under a permutation of the indices. It is essentially an overview of the method given in 11] and 10], augmented by a careful discussion of the case of xed points, which was left untreated in these articles.