For 50 years, the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) has set the standard for tropical infectious disease research and development. Founded as the SEATO Laboratory and renamed AFRIMS in 1977, as a research facility, it has acquired new disease research missions to be responsive to meet new challenges. Our mission has developed to conduct basic, preclinical and clinical...

AMONG STUDENTS OF THE WORKS of Sir Walter Scott there may be an awareness that the University of Melbourne Library is the repository of one of the best collections in the world devoted to the author. But that awareness is limited, since the Library's Scott collection is not catalogued, and to that extent it may fairly be said that the Baillieu Library has within its walls a research resource of...

Professor Hans-Walter Bandemer died on 15th November 2009, aged 77 in his home-town Halle (Saale). He was one of the most creative statisticians of the former German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.), as well as the reunified Germany. He can be considered as the father of the theory of optimal experimental design for Germany, and later, starting in the 1980s, he was one of the most active and popula...

This paper argues, following Friedrich Nietzsche, that recent evaluations of Google Earth uncritically privilege the product’s Apollonian determinations at the expense of its Dionysian uncertainties. Specifically, when we understand Google Earth as a virtual globe composed of surveyed panoramas, sober rationalization, dystopic control, and transparent order – or, even, as a tool for participati...

Nitrous oxide water column distribution during the transition from anoxic to oxic conditions in the Baltic Sea S. Walter, U. Breitenbach, H. W. Bange, G. Nausch, and D. W. R. Wallace Forschungsbereich Marine Biogeochemie, IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24 105 Kiel, Germany Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung, Warnemünde, Germany Received: 22 Febru...

Modernization theory, which dominated academic studies from the early 1950s until late 1970s, attributed a “special place” to Turkish case among many other non-Western countries, with special emphasis on Kemalist modernization of Early Republican Period. This paper seeks explore reasons for Turkey’s place and ways is positioned vis-a-vis countries by tracking scholarly works Walt Rostow, Dankwa...

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...

Walter M. Fitch, a towering giant of molecular evolution, passed away on 10 March 2011. His pivotal contributions to the field are manifold, diverse and profound. He developed some of the first algorithms and practical methods for phylogenetic tree construction; pioneered statistical approaches in sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis; introduced the covarion approach in the study of ge...

Walter Zawojski's photo of the SPEAR Mark I