How FEBS letters began

Polihexanide for wound treatment--how it began.

The essential role of wound antiseptics was discovered in the 18th century. Since then, many different procedures and substances have been developed and used for this indication. In the 1980s, polihexanide was introduced by Prof. Willenegger in Switzerland. Today, consensus recommendations confirm the potential of this substance for wound treatment. Various polihexanide-containing wound care pr...

How Safe Routes to School Began

41 DID YOU WALK OR RIDE A bicycle to school? Chances are that you did. Thirty years ago, the sight of children walking or bicycling to school was common—66 percent of all children did so. Now, however, 87 percent of all trips to and from school are made by car or bus.1 Safe Routes to School (SR2S) provides some solutions to reverse this generational shift. It is a growing movement that integrat...

ProCoS: How It All Began - as Seen from Denmark

I reminisce over an episode at the 9–13 November 1987 IFIP WG2.3 meeting at Château du Pont d’Oye in Belgium — and at what followed. I had given, at an IFIP WG2.3 meeting, in Belgium, a half hour presentation of how we, in Denmark, had developed a compiler for the full Ada programming language. My presentation had evolved around a single slide showing boxes and arrows between these, all properl...

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Genesis : How the Universe Began According to Standard Model Particle Physics

I show that the mutual consistency of the Bekenstein Bound, the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, and general relativity implies that the universe began in a unique state, an initial Friedmann S singularity at which the temperature, entropy, Higgs field, baryon number, and lepton number were zero, but with a non-zero SU(2) (gravitational) sphaleron field. I solve the coupled EYM equation...