© The National Medical Journal of India 2010 INTRODUCTION Several French travellers visited India during the seventeenth century and wrote valuable accounts in the form of memoirs, dairies, personal letters, notes, official papers and reports of their missions based on their observations and experiences. François Bernier (Fig. 1), a renowned European physician, visited India in the seventeenth ...

Gedung Sate was built to accommodate various architectural styles derived from local and foreign elements. The elements have been widely studied, such as those relating the architecture of 'Candi' on island Java. Many external are associated with Moorish European style that Dutch. However, according elements, it also indicates existence Indian Islamic architecture, Mughal style. This study Indi...

In the British Medical Journal of Aug. 14, 1943 (p. 203), Prof. Bogomoletz published an article in which he claimed that he had produced a serum the use of which caused considerable amelioration both of symptoms and of pathological tissue changes in " rheumatism." The Empire Rheumatism Council invited Prof. Bogomoletz to send some of this serum to this country in order that it might be tested u...

Since collapse of the Soviet Empire and restoration of Georgia independence organization and structure changes have begun at the Georgian Technical University. During the Empire the name of this institution was Georgian Polytechnic Institute in which specialists were trained both for Georgia and other Soviet Republics only in engineering fields. After transformation of Georgian Polytechnic Inst...

EMPIRE is a massively parallel semiempirical (NDDO) molecular-orbital program designed to scale well both on single multi-core nodes (using open MP) and on large clusters (using a hybrid open MP/MPI model). The program design and performance are discussed for single self-consistent-field calculations on up to 76,800 atoms and on both singleand multi-node machines using either Windows 7 or Linux...

This article surveys the recent Marxist globalization debate and its roots in Marx’s post-1848 writings and the Lenin-Kautsky unity-rivalry debate on the eve of World War I. The post-1916 Marxist view of capitalist imperialism is contrasted with the Hardt-Negri “Leninist” view of global capitalism they call “empire.” To refute their thesis, the author analyzes the Lenin-Kautsky debate, proving ...

The history of public health is emerging as a major concern of contemporary historians of medicine. Of course, we had decades ago histories of public health in the United Kingdom, the home of the nineteenth-century sanitary idea. These were usually reliable accounts of legislative and administrative developments but were not very sensitive to the social, political, economic and cultural context...