In 2007, we marked the 40th anniversary of the birth of invasive clinical electrophysiology. Of course, before 1967, cardiac arrhythmias were documented electrocardiographically, and their possible mechanisms were analyzed ingeniously and explained beautifully by giants such as Katz and Pick,1 Scherf and Schott,2 and Bellet.3 In the 1940s and 1950s, Hecht,4 Latour and Puech,5 and Giraud et al6 ...

Gödel's legacy is still very much in evidence. We will not attempt to properly discuss the full impact of his work and all of the ongoing important research programs that it suggests. This would require a book length manuscript. Indeed, there are several books discussing the Gödel legacy from many points of view, including, for example, [Wa87], [Wa96], [Da05], and the historically comprehensive...

Information systems design was the theme for a research group at Stockholm University under the leadership of Professor Janis Bubenko, Jr. The research group was called Computer Aided Design of Information Systems (CADIS). The CADIS group developed modeling methods and, at the same time, computer support for the modeling of information systems. The methods were stepwise defined based on early p...

In 1975, our team encountered several cases of severe inflammatory eye disease presenting as a white pupil in a red eye with rapid loss of vision. The eyes became soft within a few days with shallow anterior chamber which we called "Malignant Hypotension" in view of the latter's sinister significance. Unilaterally, little or no pain, predominantly affecting children and difficulty in dilating t...

lived through a similar period of drastic changes. Prompted by a desire to produce something useful in retirement, I thought that a survey of my own experience of obstetrics in general practice over a period of forty years in Bristol might be of some interest and value. On reaching retirement at the age of 66 I had a mass of old pre-National Health Service maternity records, all on a private ba...

Around forty years passed from the beginning of operation of the first electron-positron colliding beam facility VEPP-2 in Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Novosibirsk. Here I described development of electron-positron colliding beam project in INP, as well as advance of similar projects of the first generation at LAL, Orsay and at LNF, Frascati.

Rotavirus was first identified as a human pathogen just over 40 years ago, and work on this pathogen in India started shortly thereafter. Subsequent studies have confirmed its pre-eminent role in gastroenteritis in children in India. Standardized surveillance has enabled the documentation of the high burden of disease, and has demonstrated that there is considerable geographic and temporal vari...

Debate over civil justice reform in the United States frequently centers on the extent to which damage awards granted by juries have been escalating over time. However, past studies on civil juries have been hampered by lack of data on verdicts spanning a sufficiently long time period. Average jury awards tend to be highly variable from year to year, making it difficult to distinguish trends ov...