Sir Macfarlane Burnet [1], who is far famed for his pioneer work on cancer surveillance, recommended clearly in his Brailsford Robertson Memorial Lecture that scientists should acquaint themselves with historical antecedents. Therefore, this paper documents such antecedents in respect of the drug treatment modalities used by cancer quacks. Quacks were presented in the 1725 History of Physic by ...

Article history: Seismic and mineral physic Received 24 April 2008 Received in revised form 10 October 2008 Accepted 21 November 2008 Available online 13 January 2009

In the present paper we describe the model process of an ontologybased expert system for the control of domotic installations and SWRL rules management. From the domotic system database where the attribute values of each device are stored, a background process converts these values into ontology’s instances representing the system physic devices. From these instances, a software application -kn...

b) a personal study of referral diagnoses illustrating the G.P. hospital interface. c) an example of the use of great literature as a teaching tool in small group work (1, 2, 3). He reflected upon a recent visit to centres of excellence and experiment in the USA. i) a look at the fashionable topic of medical problem solving emphasising that hypotheses are often limited and generated early and t...

insulated Abstract—An alternative approach is proposed to develop the analytic solution for one dimensional heat conduction with one mixed type boundary condition and general time-dependent heat transfer coefficient. In this study, the physic meaning of the solution procedure is revealed. It is shown that the shifting function takes the physic meaning of the reciprocal of Biot function in the i...

Aquaporins (AQPs) are channel-forming integral membrane proteins that transport water and other small solutes across biological membranes. Despite the vital role of AQPs, to date, little is known in physic nut (Jatropha curcas L., Euphorbiaceae), an important non-edible oilseed crop with great potential for the production of biodiesel. In this study, 32 AQP genes were identified from the physic...

Résumé Phylogenetic methods are used to infer the evolutionary history of species. In the Tree of Life framework, heterogeneous character data and very large species sets are considered. Supertree methods have been developped to deal with such a situation. These methods combine source topologies, inferred from separate character sets, into a larger, so-called supertree. One of the main challeng...