Few events would have pleased Thomas Willis more than to see the publication of this beautiful edition ofhis CerebriAnatome in 1964, 300 years after its first production. This delightful memorial to Willis and his work is evidence of the sincere feeling of appreciation, widespread in doctors of the present generation in the New World, for the efforts of our medical forefathers. Here it has been...

Contact lens pioneer, Penrhyn Thomas, died on 2 May 2010, while living independently at the age of 91 years in Menai, Sydney, with his wife Trish. He was among the first contact lens practitioners in Australia and perhaps foremost in encouraging optometrists to fit contact lenses as a routine part of optometric practice. He was a driving force in the development of corneal lenses. Pen Thomas wa...

We study C60 with the use of Thomas-Fermi theory. A spherical shell model is invoked to treat the nuclear potential, where the nuclear and core charges are smeared out into a shell of constant surface charge density. The valence electron distribution and the electrostatic potential are efficiently computed by integration of the Thomas-Fermi equation, subject to the shell boundary conditions. To...

this paper examines the historical development of operations research (or) and represents different or methods (methodologies) developed during its lifetime. then, considering thomas kuhn’s paradigm model of scientific development as a basis for our work, the former and current status of or are analyzed and the future trend is discussed.

The genus Pediacus Shuckard is revised for America north of Mexico. Seven species are recorded: P. andrewsi Thomas, n. sp.; P. fuscus Erichson; P. gracilis Thomas, n. sp.; P. hesperoglaber Thomas, n. sp.; P. ommatodon Thomas, n. sp.; P. stephani Thomas, n. sp.; and P. subglaber LeConte, new status. The species are described and illustrated, and a key is presented for their identification. The d...

gravity's rainbow is among the “most widely celebrated, unread novels” of american literature and already “a piece of minor folklore.” pynchon's genius manifests itself in his uniquely wide range of subject matter and literary techniques of presentation, narration, and interpretation. gravity's rainbow is a novel based on various sets of parallels, oppositions and double structures. these paral...

The central problematic of Minor Transnationalism is that of multiple determination in the context of subject formation or identity formation. The editors make the point clearly in their fine introduction and the contributors largely agree, in analyses evoking an exceedingly diverse range of socio-economic contexts and material conditions, that postcolonial theory tends to lapse into binary hab...

A del Pezzo manifold is a projective manifold X of dimension n whose anticanonical bundle is ample and divisible by n−1 in the Picard group. These manifolds are classical objects in algebraic geometry and completely classified (Iskovskikh, Fujita, ...). In terms of differential geometry one classifies manifolds with positive Ricci curvature whose canonical class has the above divisibility. It i...

The poor prognosis associated with chaotic irregularity of the pulse was clearly known by most of ancient physicians. Perhaps the earliest description of atrial fibrillation is in Chinese, in The Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine, but in recorded history, William Harvey in 1628 was probably the first to describe ‘fibrillation of the auricles’ in animals. The first electrocardiographi...