Microcosm-Macrocosm Relationships in North American Agrarian Society

Glaucoma: macrocosm to microcosm the Friedenwald lecture.

J Stein Friedenwald, the son and grandson of ophthalmologists, was born in Baltimore in 1897. He attended Johns Hopkins Medical School, graduating in 1920. After medical internship, he spent 1 year studying ophthalmic pathology with Fredrich Verhoeff (Harvard), had a 1-year preceptorship with George de Schweinitz (Philadelphia), and then began practice without further training. He seemed not to...

North American Hair Research Society Scientific Meeting

Man as Microcosm and the Universe as Macrocosm in Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy

From the microcosm of the atomic nuclei to the macrocosm of the stars

A necessary condition for the reliable modelling of the structure or evolution of the stars and of their concomitant nucleosynthesis is the availability of good quality nuclear data in a very wide area of the chart of nuclides. This short review presents a non-exhaustive list of nuclear data of astrophysics interest (masses, β-decays, thermonuclear and non-thermonuclear reaction rates) for nucl...

16th Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society

Estradiol (E2) and drospirenone (DRSP) (Yasmin ®, Berlex), a combination estrogen–progestin birth control tablet, has been shown to be safe and effective as hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women while offering benefits in terms of improvements in blood pressure, lipid profiles, and body weight. Researchers enrolled 1,142 amenorrheic postmenopausal women in a multicenter, double-bl...