On March 14, 2009, the founding Editor of Vision Research, Professor Thorne Shipley, passed away from complications of an illness that he had been fighting for the past three years. During his almost 20-year tenure as its founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Shipley guided Vision Research from its fledgling beginnings (1960) to the preeminent journal of vision research. In addition, he published many ...

This special issue of the journal JIASF is dedicated to Professor Ivan Dimovski, Member of Editorial Board, and his contributions in mathematical analysis and its applications. The basic, widely World known and explored of them, can be classified in the following topics: operational calculus, integral transforms, theory of multipliers of convolutional algebras, expansions in eigenfunctions and ...

Case I.?-Hossain Ali, aged 58 years, Mussulman, admitted into the Dinapore Dispensary on the loth November 187.3 with, cataract of both eyes. On the 17th November the right eye was operated on by reclination, but the lens rose up again in the vitreous, and obstructed vision. On the 6th December I performed Liebrich's operation by extraction, and section of the cornea at the lower third or fourt...

Dr. Helmut Sies (MD, 1967) is recognized as a Redox Pioneer, because he authored five articles on oxidative stress, lycopene, and glutathione, each of which has been cited more than 1000 times, and coauthored an article on hydroperoxide metabolism in mammalian systems cited more than 5000 times (Google Scholar). He obtained preclinical education at the University of Tübingen and the University ...

Figure 1. Precontrast MRI T1 images showing focal signal hypointensity in the left basis pontis, left crus cerebri (cerebral peduncle) and the posterior limb of the internal capsule. The focal hypointense lesions has no or very mild mass effect and they are apparently continuos cephalocaudally. Contralaterally, the pontine basis is showing ? a very small hypointense lesion in the right side. Th...

Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, Editor, Iranian Journal of Microbiology Prof. Giovanni M. Giammanco (as representative of the colleagues of the Sections of Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Palermo). Prof. Reza Ranjbar (as representative of graduated Iranian fellows and students who were under supervision of Prof. Caterina Mammina). Professor Caterina Mammina, 1957-2016 Volume 8 Num...

Paul Dan Cristea, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at 'Politehnica' University of Bucharest died on 17 April 2013, following several years of bravely battling a perfidious illness.

Prof. dr hab. med. Aleksy Poniżyński was born on the 14th of June, 1928 in Bukówiec Górny in the province of Wielkopolska. When the second World War came in September 1939, he was about to attend the 5th grade of an elementary school in Bukówiec. During the Nazi occupation, he worked as a farmhand. After the war, he continued his elementary education in Leszno, where he also completed secondary...

In the treatment of psychotic illness, clinicians regularly face the decision whether to prescribe a standard neuroleptic or a new, atypical drug. The relevant criteria for such a choice will vary depending on the clinical situation, and many of the data required for an informed assessment of the relative risk-benefit balance for old and new drugs are not yet available. In his essay. Professor ...