Stern little lady,ancestor in an oval frame,I like the way your shoulders slopeand fingers dangleover book and carpetbag skirt.I widow's peak disruptsyour white forehead,your pink cheeks through black white.I braids loopabove collar necklace.Tell me, what color was hair?They told me stories about how you walked,how skipped a rattlesnake path,how sprinted snowy autumn prairieand kept all of toes...

extreme egocentricity ('selfishness') on the part of the patient. Most nurses who think, teach others, or have any insight into their own feelings are aware of the flaws in such beliefs and of the latent aggression and anxiety inherent in them. It is a shock, therefore, to read a book which seems to bear them out. Miss Wallace was a very 'bad' patient; in spite of advice, she persisted in takin...

Received: 24 July 2005 Revised: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 I did not have the good fortune to meet Claudio Ciborra until relatively late in life. Not that his reputation as a scholar was by any means unknown to me. Many colleagues had spoken of him, I myself had struck upon a number of his highly incisive and stimulating articles, I had even begun to gather some presentations...

Hybrid systems are digital real-time systems that are embedded in analog environments. Model-checking tools are available for the automatic analysis of linear hybrid automata, whose environment variables are subject to piecewise-constant poly-hedral diierential inclusions. In most embedded systems, however, the environment variables have diierential inclusions that vary with the values of the v...

the research discussed in this article consists of the process ended to propos a structure for social welfare and security which took more than 11 months in social security research institute. the main topics discussed are as follows: 1- the importance of social security and its relationship to economic growth, social justice, human generosity and national honor. 2- the basis and opportunities ...

After a prompt by a recent communication from Sir Paul Nurse PRS to Fellows regarding the Society’s picture collection, the library was presented with a portrait (figure 1) of physicist Albert Einstein FRS (1879–1955). The lively sketch is executed in red chalk (sanguine) on paper. It is signed by both the Danish artist Ivan Opffer (1897–1980) and Einstein (‘A. Einstein’), and is dated 1933. Th...

Giorgio Levi has two great fortunes: he has a noble smile and he survived a heart attack. These are the important facts about his personality, and they are so evident that there is no need for this modest portrait, which does little more than stating the obvious. I should perhaps start by sketching my relation with Giorgio, so that my point of view is clear: I owe my life to him. In 1991, he ga...

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