When Dr. Albert Szent G^rgyi goes fishing in the waters around Woods Hole, Massachusetts, he fixes a gargantuan hook to his line, explaining that "it is far more exciting not to catch a big fish than not to catch a small one." In a career that has spanned most of the twentieth century, this biochemist, now in his eighty-ninth year, still pursues with the passion of Captain Ahab the grandest and...

The FlexSoC program, launched in 2003, aims to develop new architectural techniques and programming models for high performance System on Chip (SoC). The target platforms for FlexSoC are embedded systems such as PDAs and high performance mobile phones. Important properties for embedded systems are long battery life, high performance and the flexibility to adapt to new protocols and standards. T...

This volume grew out of the Logos Conference, which took place in London on 9–11 September 2004, jointly organized by the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The publicity for the conference stressed the exploratory nature of the event: it sought to bring together scholars with a professional interest in the Greek language f...

Two hundred and thirty cases of tuberculosis were analysed at randoln in O.P.D. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Governnlent Medical college, Amritsar from January 1997 to March 2001. The aim was to evaluate the ~linicopathologicalpresentation of the disease and the Inode of diagnosis by formulating some suspicion criteria, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria and conclusion criteria and to see...

Software systems are increasingly open, handle large amounts of personal or other sensitive data and are intricately linked with the daily lives of individuals and communities. This poses a range of privacy requirements. Such privacy requirements are typically treated as instances of requirements pertaining to compliance, traceability, access control, verification or usability. Though important...

Significant happenings for tinnitus occurred in 1995. The year 1995 can be considered a landmark year at which time the past, present and future of tinnitus have been reviewed, plans set in place for continuation of activities of the present and their projection for the future. Events particularly in this past year of 1995 demonstrate the dynamic growth and development of the discipline Tinnito...

In the last three or four years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified, and the introduction of insulin has enabled the general practitioner to treat diabetes with a considerable degree of success. Yet there still appears to exist some confusion as to the indications and contraindications for certain well established therapeutic measures in the management of diabetes. It is the p...

Due to the stubborn nature of the deterministic job-shop scheduling problem many solutions proposed are of hybrid construction cutting across the traditional disciplines. The problem has been investigated from a variety of perspectives resulting in several analytical techniques combining generic as well as problem specific strategies. We seek to assess a subclass of this problem in which the ob...

An overview of psychiatry during the last three decades as practised in a general teaching hospital is presented. Psychiatry as an academic subject has matured tremendously during this period. The empirical treatments of the 1950s and the 1960s which evoke nostalgic memories, have been replaced by modern methods of treatment. However, there is a need to exercise caution against the blind accept...