The news is so full of lives cut short that one might worry that we have become inured to the experience. But cold reality asserts itself when a premature death strikes within our own community, and the full tragedy and the wasted opportunity are exposed. We then pause to mark the singularity of human existence and the personal nature of science itself. John Newport, distinguished professor of ...

Economists have directed attention to the role of corporate governance in determining the performance of business enterprises well before the issue was thrust into prominence by the troubles of Enron, WorldCom, and others. Much of this literature examines the consequences of different mechanisms for corporate control. An important part of this literature stresses the role of banks in corporate ...

E-mail address: jan 1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Lessons learnt from Hurricane Ike last autumn are now guiding John Mendelsohn in his management of the largest US cancer institute in the current financial down turn. ‘‘We face critical financial pressures due to decreasing federal research support, cutbacks in Medicaid and Medicare, reduced philanthropic gifts, and increases in ...

Some aestheticians, e.g., Peter Kivy,' are Platonists about pieces of music. They hold that a piece of music is the sound structure indicated by the notation, and that performances are (or, present) tokens of the sound structure, i.e., tokens of a type. Other philosophers, e.g., Jerrold Levinson, deny this; in Kivy's terminology they are anti-Platonists. Levinson holds that the essential charac...

On Ju ly 5, 1981, John Howard Northrop will reach the venerable age of four score and ten. He is active and well for a man of his age but a bit unhappy that his diminished eyesight makes him no longer the skeet supermarksman he once was. The Editors of The Journal of General Physiology and some of Dr. Northrop's friends wish to use this occasion to express their grati tude for his 62-year-long ...

John Walker Barber-Lomax, always known to family and friends alike as Jack, and to colleagues as B-L, died on 13 April. He was born on 4 December 1914, near Bolton, Lancashire. After Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge, he proceeded to St Thomas' Hospital for a medical training but changed course and went up to the Liverpool veterinary school where he took the Golding prize in veterinary ...

farm machinery managers often need to make complex economic decisions on machinery replacement. repair and maintenance costs can have significant impacts on this economic decision. the farm manager must be able to predict farm machinery repair and maintenance costs. this study aimed to identify a regression model that can adequately represent the repair and maintenance costs in terms of machine...

In a note published in this journal 2019, Sebastian Sobecki drew attention to new life-record for John Lydgate. The document, which dates late January or early February 1425, is of significance because it offers the earliest surviving record Lydgate's tenure as prior Hatfield Regis. However, only refers him John, Here author would like present three life-records from 1424, all mention Lydgate b...

john hick’s pluralism hypothesis is an endeavor from and within christian tradition to explain the relation of christianity with other world religions. his basically claim is that all religions epistemologically have the same value and do well in leading their followers to the ultimate salvation. for justifying his claim, hick has to defend his hypothesis at two levels: first he has to defend t...