Born in Edinburgh on the 1st February 1821, he was educated at the High School of that city. It was at the University of Edinburgh that he received his medical education. His early youth gave promise of his future ; for his assiduity, his love of work, during this period of his life, were such as to augur well for that future. He graduated in 1841 with first-class honours; his Thesis on " The P...

Walter Tarello* (DVM, MA Cardiology, MRCVS) *Pet Connection Veterinary Clinic, Al Barsha 1, Summer Land Building, P.O. Box 450288, Dubai, UAE Tel: +971 4 447 53 07 Email: [email protected] BACKGROUND Avian pox is a viral disease characterized by nodular lesions on the featherless parts of a bird: eyelids, nostrils and feet. Falcons in the Middle East are naturally exposed to Avipoxvirus through...

industry, for it has a unique place in the history of England's industhai revolution. Rostow gives it the ultimate accolade: "the original leading sector in the first take-off," and to Crafts and Harley, "the really big issue [in determining the rate of growth during the industrial revolution] is undoubtedly the weighting of cotton rather than the correct distribution of value added weights amo...

The formal structure of evolutionary theory is based upon the dynamics of (populations of) “individuals.” It therefore assumes the entities whose existence it is supposed to explain. At the heart of the existence problem is determining how biological organizations arise in ontogeny and in phylogeny. The research theme we called Algorithmic Chemistry (AlChemy) was an attempt at constructing a fo...

Ajay Kalra • Mengze Shi • Kannan Srinivasan Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 [email protected] • [email protected] • kannans@a...