Pont-de-Metz

Obituary: Rafael Pont-Lezica (1940–2011)

Rafael Pont-Lezica, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Emeritus Professor at the Université de Toulouse, passed away on September 26, 2011 after losing his fight with cancer. He had studied agronomy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and in 1978 earned a Ph. D. at the Université de Gembloux, Belgium. Rafael began his scientific career as a Research Assistant in Pl...

Ulf Dieckmann , and Johan A . J . Metz

Species form different kinds of patches; these patches form a mosaic and together constitute the community. Recognition of the patch is fundamental to an understanding of structure. Patches are dynamically related to each other. But there are also departures from this inherent tendency to orderliness. At any given time, therefore, structure is the resultant of causes which make for order, and t...

H . , Metz , J . , Teanby , N . A . , Ward , A . D .

Decision and Risk Analysis at Du Pont

Formal decision analysis in the face of uncertainty frequently occurs at the most strategic levels of a company’s planning process and typically involves teams of high-level managers from all areas of the company. This is certainly the case with Du Pont, as reported by two internal decision analysis experts, Krumm and Rolle (1992), in their article “Management and Application of Decision and Ri...

The acoustic reflex in diagnostic audiology: from Metz to present.

In 1946, Metz described what was probably the first practical impedance bridge for measurement of the acoustic reflex. Over the next four decades, diagnostic use of the acoustic reflex progressed in parallel with instrumentation refinements. Today, acoustic reflex threshold and decay testing are a routine component of the diagnostic audiology test battery. Recent advances in the measurement of ...