This book is a reprint of papers originally contributed to " Colburn's United Service Magazine." Its scope is ambitious. It aims to present a history of the aid which medical art and medical men have rendered in war from the earliest times,?among the Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and Normans, and in the English Army since their time. The history is brought down to the year 1860, when the first c...

Spline methods provide an important tool to solve singularly perturbed boundary value problems. The present paper gives a comprehensive review of computational methods based on splines used in the solution of various classes of singularly perturbed problems such as self adjoint, linear, non-linear, semi-linear, quasi-linear, singular, single parameter and multi parameter. The spline based numer...

BRCA2-deficient sarcomatoid mammary tumors exhibit multi-drug resistance 1 Janneke E. Jaspers, Wendy Sol, Ariena Kersbergen, Andreas Schlicker, Charlotte Guyader, 2 Guotai Xu, Lodewyk Wessels, Piet Borst, Jos Jonkers, Sven Rottenberg 3 4 Authors’ affiliations 5 1 Divisions of Molecular Oncology, 2 Molecular Pathology and 3 Molecular Carcinogenesis, 6 Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 12...

Precis: Given tax rates, tax revenues rise as income rises. This p roper ty o f a tax system is k n o w n as " b u i l t i n flexibility o f taxa t ion" and i t is w i d e l y regarded as a stabilising force. The present paper analyses a mode l i n w h i c h tax liabilities are a lagged funct ion o f income and con­ sumption adjusts to disposable income either w i t h or w i t h o u t t ime lag...

In order to pr oduce the Consumer Price Index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics c ollects its sample frame using a v ery narrow definition of the target sam ple unit – a retai l establishment or ‘outlet ’. Specifically, an outlet is de fined by the unique combination of operating name, mode (e.g. internet, brick-and-mortar), and if brick-and-mortar, the exact physical address of the st ore. While...

tion. London", H. K. Lewis. This work is too well known and highly appreciated to require an elaborate review of its fifth edition. It is issued in the form of one volume, and is of manageable size. It has undergone thorough revision, some parts of it having been r written. It is well up to the clay. For example, under the head of tuberculosis a careful precis is given of all that is known rega...