By the death of Sir Joseph Ewart, the Epidemiological Society has lost one who, during two successive years, (1890-91 and 1891-92) occupied its Presidential Chair, as well as many other distinguished positions, both in this country and in India. He was born in 1831, and after studying at Guy's Hospital entered the Indian Medical Service in 1854. He served with the Maywar Bheel Corps during the ...

Soutra is no doubt an interesting site, and careful archaeological examination of the remains of its pits may produce, as suggested by SHARP, knowledge of the foods and medicines used by its staff and inmates. For the moment, however, the First report on Soutra indicates that the necessary balance between academic skills, ambitious objectives, imagination, and interpretative ability has yet to ...

In the field of plastic surgery, many new ideas and skills are developed by surgeons and researchers. “Publish or perish” is a phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to publish work constantly to further or sustain one’s career [1]. To share knowledge or skill with others, or promote one’s position in schools, they should write papers. However, it is not easy to gather and develop w...

D URING 1958 and 1959 at Northwestern Universitv (Chicago). we developed transplantation of the canine liver alone. I parallel to similar independent investigations in Boston hy Francis Moore.:'" The liver also was transplanted as a component of abdominal multivisceral grafts. 4 At the beginning. these were technical and physiologic exercises. because long-term survival of an organ allograft ha...

Rates of hybridization and introgression are increasing dramatically worldwide because of translocations, restocking of organisms and habitat modifications; thus, determining whether hybridization is occuring after reintroducing extirpated congeneric species is commensurately important for conservation. Restocking programs are sometimes criticized because of the genetic consequences of hatchery...

In human physiology, proteins at all times are synthesized, processed, degraded and posttranslationally modified to varying degrees and at different rates, for their participations in a wide variety of activities to maintain normal functions of the body (Murray et al. 2007). In the successful proceedings of all the biological events, signals are consistently received and sent via physical conta...

A Murray-von Neumann algebra is the algebra of operators affiliated with a finite von Neumann algebra. In this article, we first present a brief introduction to the theory of derivations of operator algebras from both the physical and mathematical points of view. We then describe our recent work on derivations of Murray-von Neumann algebras. We show that the "extended derivations" of a Murray-v...