and practice, as Margaret Pelling asserts, but on several issues theory was vital, namely quarantine and the separation of the sick from the healthy, especially in hospitals. The relationship of the work of the leading medical theoreticians analysed here, to other practitioners, to politicians, and to public opinion needs further examination. This book not only makes that task easier but makes ...

For nearly 100 years and at least in certain prominent psychoanalytic subgroups, the Oedipus complex remained a defining construct that determined a boundary for those within and outside psychoanalysis. The time is ripe for reconsidering its culture-specific and variable nature and its failure inter alia to explain with any degree of cogency ongoing internecine conflict in a community of clinic...

Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is the largest and most important meeting of AI theoreticians and practitioners in the United States This year, the conference was held in Seattle, Wash, and paid attendance was just under 5100 Last year’s Philadelphia conference drew 5400 The drop in attendance was primarily the result of competition with the International /oint Conference on Arti...

A workshop on 'The evolution of sex determination systems' was held at a remote place in the Swiss Alps from 17 to 20 June 2009. It brought together theoreticians and empiricists, the latter ranging from molecular geneticists to evolutionary ecologists, all trying to understand key aspects of sex determination. The topics discussed included the evolutionary origins of sex determination, the div...

That review article is focused on the tremendous progresses realized during the last fifteen years in the understanding of multifragmentation and its relationship to the liquid-gas phase diagram of nuclei and nuclear matter. The explosion of the whole nucleus, early predicted by Niels Bohr [1], is a very complex and rich subject which continues to fascinate nuclear physicists as well as theoret...

Abstract. Flexible free standing polymer electrolyte films have been successfully prepared using a blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) doped with lithium perchlorate (LiClO4). The conductivity of the film was influenced by salt concentration and the degree of crystallinity. An optimum room temperature conductivity obtained was 2.10...

Sandrine Martin Michael Hamilton Jerzy Kanicki* Abstract — Organic-polymer-based thin-film transistors (OP-TFTs) look very promising for flexible, large-area, and low-cost organic electronics. In this paper, we describe devices based on spin-coated organic polymer that reproducibly exhibit field-effect mobility values around 5×10–3 cm2/V-sec. We also address fabrication, performance, and stabil...