Music is a g rea t zeal of t h e h u m a n spir i t . I t is a n i n s a t i a t e n e e d a n d a powerful ons l augh t t o w a r d perfect ion. I t revea ls spon taneous ly m o s t che r i shed t h o u g h t s a n d feelings. T h a t is why , t h e g rea t m a n of med ic ine a n d r e n o w n e d m u s i c i a n , Dr. Alber t Schwe i t ze r def ined : « Mus i c is a tool of t h e noble spir ...

Fair processing is a key principle of the Data Protection Act and requires organisations to be clear and open with individuals about how their information will be used. This is particularly important where data are collected without individual patient consent with support under section 251 of the Health and Social Care Act, as is the case for the UK Renal Registry (UKRR). As part of ongoing eff...

In the early 19th century, the discoveries of new substances in the healthy and diseased body spawned a search for chemical explanations for physiologic phenomena to guide medical diagnosis and control therapy. William Prout's work on the nature and treatment of diseases of the urinary organs established his reputation as one of Britain's most distinguished physiological chemists. Prout was ver...

This paper presents the traditions of assisted childbirth in the Brazilian state of Bahia in the 19th Century and develops the hypothesis that two obstetrical traditions coexisted in the capital, Salvador, namely the doctor-midwives--who used technical resources and knowledge acquired from obstetrics as a medical specialty--and the traditional midwives, whose know-how was purely of an empirical...

The 19th International Leprosy Congress was held in Beijing, China during September 2016. The theme of the Congress was the ‘unfinished business’ for leprosy of stopping transmission, preventing disability and promoting inclusion. The Congress had many important sessions and included 4 Plenary Sessions focusing on the critical challenges facing leprosy today. The content and the key issues of t...

In late August, hundreds of chemists gathered on the eastern edge of Europe, some sipping raki while looking over the Bosporus Strait to the Asian continent. More than 900 people attended the 19th International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Istanbul from August 29 to September 2, 2006, hosted by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) and the Turkish Association of Pharmace...

Contact e-mail address: agata @ chtf.stuba.sk Topics 1. Chemical substances and living organisms 2. Analysis and monitoring of toxic agencies in environment 3. Risk analysis assessment and management of chemical technologies and use of chemicals 4. Protection profilaxis and treatment of intoxication 5. Miscellaneous Plenary lectures M. Anke, Germany: The ultra trace element intake of nickel, ca...

This paper describes the way in which personal relationships between main characters in 19 century Swedish prose fiction can be identified using information guided by named entities, provided by a entity recognition system adapted to the 19 century Swedish language characteristics. Interpersonal relation extraction is based on the context between two relevant, identified person entities. The re...

External factors such as author gender, author nationality, and date of publication affect both the choice of literary themes in novels and the expression of those themes, but the extent of this association is difficult to quantify. In this work, we apply statistical methods to identify and extract hundreds of "topics" from a corpus of 3,346 works of 19th-century British, Irish, and American fi...