Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and ...

James Tanner spent much of his childhood abroad, in the baggage train of the British Army; when he was 9 years old the family returned to their home in east Devon and he began his schooling. He attended Marlborough College from 1934 to 1938 on a scholarship reserved for the sons of Army officers. Having specialised first in modern languages and then in mathematics and engineering, he found hims...

AIMS To document survival rates after acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) during the era of modern chemotherapy, to assess effects of prognostic factors at presentation, and to investigate the relation of survival to patterns of organisation of care. PATIENTS From a population based series of 5078 children diagnosed in the UK during 1980-94, 4988 remained for analysis after exclusion of nine ...

The paper employed Remote sensing data in a multi-decadal assessment of vegetal to urban land cover transition along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. forty-year commenced 1980 and ended 2020. Landsat imageries acquired for the respective periods were subjected supervised classification. Results reveal massive conversion vegetated areas into built-up areas. became pronounced from second decade with 30,2...

Abstract A shipwreck of the 3rd/2nd decade BC found near Comacchio (prov. Ferrara, Italy) in 1980 contained not only well-preserved technical equipment and commercial goods but also 102 Roman lead ingots. Since then, origin ingots has been intensively discussed. Domergue et al. (2012) connected epigraphic elements with isotope analyses favored southeastern Spanish ore mines being source metal. ...

that the recent outbreak of malaria around Nairobi has been caused by climate change,” it says. “In fact this probably has more to do with changes in drainage systems and population expansion. But in the Central Highlands the researchers have been able to rule these out and directly attribute the change to a 2oC rise in temperature.” The institute is using climate models to predict when epidemi...

Wastewater from the fertiliser industry is characterised by high chloride concentration, normally varying between 60 and 76 g/ l. Experiments with biological denitrification were performed in laboratory-scale ‘fill and draw’ reactors with synthetic fertiliser wastewater, with chloride concentrations up to 96.7 g Cl/l at 37°C; the pH was controlled in the range 6.8 to 7.2. Potassium acetate was ...

With the objective to evaluate the behavior of paracoccidioidomycosis in the last three decades, clinical and epidemiological data of 595 patients admitted to clinical services of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul from 1980 to 2009 were investigated. Gender, age distribution, clinical form, comorbidity with tuberculosis or AIDS, and mortality were compared by decades of clinical admi...

Background: Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common cardiovascular conditions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Previous studies showed a 2-fold excess risk HF RA versus general population (1). Whether this has changed over time not known. Longitudinal on trends occurrence time, and comparing are lacking. Objectives: 1) To assess incidence incident 1980-2009; 2) compare populatio...