We have recently prepared iodocasein containing radioactive iodine (1’31) for use in studies, to be described in detail elsewhere, on the metabolism of calorigenic substances in human beings. The procedure followed was, in general, that of Reineke and Turner (1,2) except for modifications necessitated by the incorporation and handling of Pal. These modifications shorten the procedure somewhat a...

Rayleigh-Bernard convection offers a unique flow situation in which buoyancy-generated turbulence can be studied in isolation, free of the complicating influence of shear production of turbulence. The objective of this paper is to examine and model important aspects of buoyancy-generated turbulence using direct numerical simulation (DNS) data of Rayleigh-Bernard convection. In particular, we ex...

The lottery preparation, a new general kind of Laver preparation, works uniformly with supercompact cardinals, strongly compact cardinals, strong cardinals, measurable cardinals, or what have you. And like the Laver preparation, the lottery preparation makes these cardinals indestructible by various kinds of further forcing. A supercompact cardinal κ, for example, becomes fully indestructible b...

We revisit three important articles published in prior issues of the Journal of Insurance Medicine (JIM) that summarize the process of selecting articles for mortality analysis and abstract preparation. The article selection and analysis recommendations put forth in these reprints are part of the core knowledge of Insurance Medicine regularly presented in Mortality courses sponsored by the Amer...

Stephen Jay Gould14 wrote, “I always look to closing paragraphs as indications of a book’s essential character.” Although that may be germane for books, in the case of manuscripts, it may be just the reverse; it may be that Abstracts are the indications of the essential character of as are the indications of the essential character of a manuscript. The structure of the Abstract varies depending...

Streptococcus Pneumoniae suspension preparation S. Pneumoniae capsular type 6A (DBL6A) was previously described as a virulent strain (Briles et al., 1992). Hemoculture of mouse second passage isolates were provided by Dr. Denis Martin (ID Biomedical, Quebec, Canada) and a suspension of the provided culture in Todd Hewitt medium supplemented with 0.5% yeast extract (THY) was incubated at 37 o C ...

Wound bed preparation is a new approach that integrates proven concepts to build a platform for the treatment of chronic wounds. It organizes currently approved medical procedures and products into a holistic approach that can be used to evaluate and remove barriers to the wound-healing process. Removal of such barriers allows for optimal wound repair and healing. To address these barriers, a s...