It was a happy thought which led Professor Adami to issue this reprint from his article on "Inflammation" in Allbutt's System of Medicine. Admirable as the original contribution was, the issue gains by the inclusion of the more recent work on the subject. Would that the book could find its way to the desk of every writer upon medical matters, and form a part of the outfit of all who carry out t...

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an histor...

For those who have never taken the trouble to consider ways and methods of thinking and who wish to know of a readable and interesting introduction to the subject this small book of Canon Dewar's can be confidently recommended. Its three sections cover a great deal of ground. The first is concerned with different types of thinking and with the rules of the syllogism. The second calls attention ...

Race, ethnicity, and culture have an effect on all aspects of mental illness. Forensic psychiatrists and psychologists should consider these issues when performing evaluations for legal purposes and when providing treatment to the special populations with whom they work. This article defines race and ethnicity and reviews the available literature on the impact of race and ethnicity on diagnosis...

assistive technologies have always opened new horizons in human’s life, posed solutions to problems and brought relief and prosperity for human beings. iranian judicial authorities have recently recognized the importance of medical technologies. accordingly, iranian legal system has recognized surrogacy and a surrogacy contract seems unavoidable for surrogacy to be legally valid, socially accep...

QUESTION I have b e en fol lowing the S o ciety of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s (SOGC’s) guidelines on emergency contraception. One of my colleagues tells me that implantation takes place on about the fifth day after conception and, therefore, use of an intrauterine device (IUD) on the sixth or seventh day (in accordance with the guidelines) could be seen as abortion. Does this ...

As High Performance Fortran (HPF) is being both developed and redesigned by the HPF Forum, it is important to provide comprehensive criteria for analyzing HPF features. This paper presents such criteria related to three aspects: adequacy to applications, aesthetic and soundness in a language, and implementability. Some features already in HPF or being currently discussed are analyzed according ...

The work of Ambrozie and Vasilescu on perturbations of Fredholm complexes is generalized by discussing the stability theory of Banach space complexes under inessential perturbations. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47A53; Secondary: 47A13.