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Hendrikje van Andel, bristlecone pines, and why we die.

At the moment of writing this editorial (September 2004), the oldest living person in the world is Hendrikje van Andel. She celebrated her 114th birthday on June 29 of this year, and lives in an old people’s home in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. When interviewed by the world press she cheerfully gave away her secret: a herring and a glass of orange juice a day. While survival beyond the age of 10...

Spiegelbeeld der Wetenschap. Het Genootschap ter Bevordering van Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde 1790–1990

The remaining essays were all newly commissioned. Gerald Izenberg provides a balanced and readable account of the abandonment of the seduction theory (taking into consideration the newest discussions on this topic). Clark Glymour's piece reflects on Freud's relationship to nineteenth-century philosophy (including Franz Brentano) and neurology in terms of Freud's understanding of the mechanism o...

What is L TER ?

The LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH program (L TEA) is a network of field sites used to study structure and process in natural landscapes at temporal and spatial scales of decades or centuries. The ten sites now funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Biotic Systems and Resources, include forest, prairie, desert, and aquatic environments. Major questions are addressed at each site...

Infectious coccygeal discospondylitis in an adult trotter horse Infectieuze discospondylitis ter hoogte van de staartwervels bij een volwassen draver

This case describes the clinical and radiographic appearance, medical treatment and long-term followup of a 6-year-old French trotter stallion that was referred with an acute onset of pain and swelling at the tail-head without a history of traumatic insult. Radiographic examination revealed multiple semicircular and millet-sized radiolucencies at the endplates of several adjacent caudal vertebr...

An Anatomical Study of the Propriospinal Connections in the Cat Proefschrift Ter Verkrijging Van De Graad Van Doctor in De Geneeskunde Aan De Erasmus Universiteit Te Rotterdam Op Gezag Van De Rector Magnificus