Francis Walker

Francis Barr

influenza programme chief, reported an increase in the number of cluster cases reported recently, with the biggest being a family of five cases. There have been seven cluster cases in Vietnam, all within single families, most recently in the northern province of Haiphong. No relative has been proved to have passed the disease to another in these cases but, Horby said, " the onset dates could be...

Francis Wolenski

Copyrighted Material - Taylor & Francis

Light interactions with biological tissues and fluids can be categorized into two large classes of biological media: (1) strongly scattering (opaque) with skin, brain, vessel walls, eye sclera, blood, and lymph, and (2) weakly scattering (transparent) with cornea, crystalline lens, vitreous humor, and aqueous humor of the front chamber of the eye.1–7 Light interactions with tissues of the first...

Notes on Francis Fukuyama

As the end of the century [in this case the end of the 80s] approaches, the triumph of Western liberal democracy again seems the inevitability that it did at the turn of the previous century. This is an absolute triumph of the Western idea. It is seen in the failure of all viable alternative ideas, and also in the spread of consumer culture around the world. This may signal the end of history i...

Francis W. Peabody, 1917