Abstract In this article I consider medieval blood imagery in the paintings, films and journals of Derek Jarman, focusing on works made between 1989–1993. Taking a transhistorical comparative approach, analyse Jarman's images alongside his sources, primarily Julian Norwich's Revelations Gerard Cremona's translation Ibn Sīnā's (Avicenna's) al-Qa'n ū n fī al-tibb (Canon Medicine). addition, find ...

The dental profession is a noble profession. It takes years of devotion towards the subject of dentistry to get the graduate degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. However, even after such painstaking efforts the current situation of dental graduates in India is grave. There are a lot of issues that are the main cause for this problem. The dental graduates are in a state of crisis due to lack of...

Whereas the search for the degeneracy points which are better known as conical intersections (or ci-points) is usually carried out with a lot of devotion, the nonadiabatic coupling terms (NACTs) which together with the adiabatic potential energy surfaces appear in the nuclear Born-Oppenheimer-Schrodinger equation are ignored in most dynamical calculations. In the present article we consider two...

1998 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture NFAIS Annual Conference February 24, 1998 Philadelphia, PA Kent Smith, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine © 1998 Kent Smith Good morning and thank you for the honor to present this lecture in the memory of Miles Conrad, first president of NFAIS and one of its original founders. The lecture series is a fitting memory to a man of vision, strength, dev...

The family self-help movement in schizophrenia is in danger of losing its effectiveness, the authors believe. Many in the movement seem overly concerned with being accepted by professionals and others, which means that they become less single-minded in their advocacy for their relatives and for their own needs. Family groups are having difficulty maintaining their separate and unique identity a...