This is a celebration. It is both a birth and an anniversary. For Yale and Connecticut it is a beginning of a new era, a new forward step in biomedical research. Here and now we break ground for a new Center which will bring together outstanding investigators. By their work together, they will push forward the frontier of understanding of normal and abnormal molecular, cellular, and organic phe...

37 It is with an immense sense of pride and professional accomplishment, as well as some definite trepidation, that I sit contemplating my upcoming term as the 86th President of APS as the fifth woman to hold that office in the Society’s 125-year history. Like my immediate predecessors, Joey Granger and Sue Barman, I am extraordinarily grateful to the APS membership for their confidence in elec...

1330 Attending college, without the right to vote, I had little or no interest in national politics (or state or local, for that matter). In the fall of 1960, John Kennedy arrived in Dayton to give a morning campaign speech from the courthouse steps. Cutting classes, I zigzagged through the crowd to watch and hear Kennedy speak to everyone, regardless of age, race, religion, or gender. That spe...

This chapter examines connections between research in music, neurology, and psychology during the late-nineteenth century. Researchers in all three disciplines investigated how music is processed by the brain. Psychologists and comparative musicologists, such as Carl Stumpf, thought in terms of multiple levels of sensory processing and mental representation. Early thinking about music processin...

In relinquishing the duties of the chair this evening, I have to express the interest and pleasure with which I have presided at these meetings and listened to the communications and debates of the Society during my term of office as your President for the last two years. And while I thanked you at the commencement of my career for the honour you then conferred upon me in my election to that di...

Saying goodbye to the old and ready for the challenges of the new, RCN President Maude Storey delivers a special New Year message to the College membership.

There is long-standing belief that the Irish presidency is a unique or at least a very unusual institution. To what extent is this interpretation correct? This article compares the Irish presidency with other presidencies. It examines the spread of direct presidential elections and the gradual diffusion of constitutions with a mix of presidential and parliamentary features. It then compares the...

Dr. Gerald N. Glickman, President, Baylor College of Dentistry Dr. Stephen K. Young, President-elect, University of Oklahoma Dr. Leo E. Rouse, Immediate Past President, Howard University Dr. Ryan T. Hajek, Vice President for Students, Residents, and Fellows, University of Nebraska Medical Center Dr. Pamela J. Hughes, Vice President for Hospitals and Advanced Education Programs, University of Mi...

Objective: OFFPump CABG surgery (opcab) is performing worldwide and the rate of coronary revascularization without CPB (cardiopulmonary Bypass) is growing significantly. The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk factors for early mortality after OPCABG. Methods: From April 2009 to April 2011, data were collected from a total of 920 patients who underwent OFFPump CABG. Variables that were re...