Vr. H., a 20ear-old Negro housewife, was apparently norimnal at birth except for small supernumeraryl digits on eaich of her 4 extremities. As a child she was able to keel) up with other children until her early teens when she noted easy fatigabilitv on moderate exertion and inability to run because of dvspnea and marked dizziness. At 15 years of age she had pleurisy an(l shortness of l)reathi ...

We regret to report the death of Mr. C. A. Morton, which took place on August 16th during a holiday in Switzerland. Charles Alexander Morton, known to many generations of students as " Peter," was born in Bristol in 1860, where his father, a surgeon in the H.E.I.C.S., lived after his retirement. He was educated at Clifton, and subsequently at St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Stanford Morton, of ophthalmo...

The troubled life and death of William Thomas Green Morton has been described in several texts. His first public demonstration of ether anesthesia was the highpoint of a life that was less than successful in many of his endeavors. Close examination of this life reveals a pattern of behavior that progresses from narcissistic traits to narcissistic personality pathology. This retrospective psychi...

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This paper investigates the recursive Morton ordering of two-dimensional arrays as an efficient way to access hierarchical memory across a range of heterogeneous computer platforms, ranging from many-core devices, multicore processor, clusters, and distributed environments. A brief overview of previous research in this area is given, and algorithms that make use of Morton ordering are described...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to retrospectively assess for differences in imaging appearances of Morton neuromas before and after laser therapy using diagnostic ultrasound (US). MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed to identify patients who underwent US imaging to evaluate for Morton neuroma during the study period (June 1, 2013-July 1, 2014); of the 42 patien...

A novel scheme used for controlling access requests in security information system is proposed. In the proposed method, the system administrator chooses distinct prime numbers representing each atomic access right as well as four large prime numbers for encryption. By setting these representative prime numbers as input parameters, the proposed method applies a one-way function combining the Mor...