The diagnosis and treatment of ocular inflammatory disease began as a scientific discipline in the 17th century, with the recognition of infectious diseases, such as gonorrhea, that can affect the eye. Thereafter, for the better part of the next 2 centuries, most all ocular inflammatory diseases were considered infectious in nature, with syphilis and tuberculosis believed to be the primary culp...

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In the new millennium, technology and technological knowledge will continue to experience sustained rates of growth in no small part because of greatly enhanced information and communication technology. As our understanding of technology becomes greater, developments come faster, leading to near exponential growth of ideas, inventions and products. This in turn drives an increasing complexity a...

50 years of consumer decision research has resulted in many decision models and decision strategies, yet they appear conflicting and inconsistent. We know that consumers use different strategies in different decision contexts, yet we have insufficient understanding of how they choose and apply these strategies to yield predictability. We know that consumers sometimes trade-off between attribute...

Editors’ Note: LeBaron and Patera use their own cultures – Canadian and Austrian respectively – to examine the teaching assumptions of a group of top-flight teachers of negotiation. They discover a number of unstated theoretical assumptions, heavily influenced by Western thought in general and U.S. culture in particular, and demonstrate alternate assumptions which might better guide second gene...

The initiatives known as the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) of the early 1990's, of the Automated Highway System and the Intelligent Transportation System of the middle 90's, and now USDOT's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative of 1998, have all created a climate for rapid advance in ground vehicle communication and control technology. An industry such as that of aerospace lighting, with i...

Agricultural automation is expected to continue in the new millennium. Reasons are given why a number of prototype automation systems developed in the 20th century have not yet proceeded to commercialisation. Some barriers that have deterred this are identified, and it is suggested that research to overcome these barriers will be a focus of future activity. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All righ...

May/June 2000, Vol.7, No.3 Cancer Control 209 The aftermath of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl sensitized a large proportion of the general public about not only the importance of thyroid cancer as a disease, but also the need to minimize radiation exposure of children as a preventive measure. However, many physicians, including some oncologists, regard thyroid cancer as a rather puzzling but...

Spoken language processing has created value in multiple application areas such as document transcription, data base entry, and command and control. Recently scientists have been focusing on a new class of application that promises on-demand access to multimedia information such as radio and broadcast news. In separate research, augmenting traditional graphical interfaces with additional modali...