The international mathematics community has recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of Gabor SzegS"s birth. 1 Gabor Szeg6 was 90 years old when he died. He was born in Kunhegyes on January 20,1895, and died in Palo Alto on August 7, 1985. His mother's and father's names were Hermina Neuman and Adolf Szeg6, respectively. His birth was formally recorded at the registry of the Karcag Rabbinical ...

Although the editor, in his introduction, does not make it quite clear why at this particular point in time the decision was taken to reprint Louis Bolk's neuro-anatomical work on the segmental innervation ofthe human trunk and limbs, there can be no doubt that this monograph of 1910, both from a clinical and historical point of view, is a worthwhile publication. Bolk, the most influential of D...

Jakab was a lawyer in the Budapest office of the Assicurazioni Generali of Trieste, a large international insurance firm. Before joining the company he had had a private law practice. His real interests, however, lay in economics and statistics and he continued to study these on the side, in the hope of obtaining an academic position in economics, so that he could devote full time to research. ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate traffic flow characteristics at off-ramp junctions in Iranian expressways. The study was conducted on the traffic behavior in isolated off-ramp vicinity of 6-lane expressways. The database consisted of traffic flow and traffic speed information extracted from videotapes. The relationship between diverging traffic flow in the right lane of expressway ...

This paper summarises the general pattern of urban land-cover change in the Northeastern Illinois between 1972 and 1997 using Landsat acquired remotely sensed images. The region, centred by the city of Chicago, experienced dramatic land cover change in the past decades. Accompanying the redistribution of population and decentralisation of metropolitan functions are the tremendous growth and dev...