George Armitage Miller died on July 22, 2012, at the age of ninety-two. He led a rich life full of accomplishments in the three areas of activity that he had chosen as a young man: psychology, writing, and golf. Miller was not only a witness but a key player in the major paradigm shift of the 20th century that came to be known as the cognitive revolution. Incredible as it may seem today, his te...

We have once more to record the death of one of the former Presidents of our Society. Dr. J. G. Davey died on February 20th, at the advanced age of 82. He began his professional life as a general practitioner, but circumstances soon transferred him to the special branch of medical work which he continued to the end, viz., the treatment of lunacy and the care of the insane; and it will be seen f...

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is one of the commonest food additives in the developed world and it is a commonly used flavour enhancer. MSG can be found in various concentrations in numerous food products. MSG is a sodium salt of glutamic acid, a naturally occurring non-essential amino acid with trade names such as Ajinomoto, Vetsin, Ac’cent and Tasting Powder. Although, MSG could improve the pala...

I am honored to accept the Ambulatory Pediatric Association’s (APA’s) George Armstrong Lecture Award 2000 on behalf of Greenpeace. We greatly appreciate your recognition of Greenpeace’s global efforts to protect the earth and its children. Because of my campaign’s work on toxic pollution, and the effects of chemicals on the health of children everywhere, Greenpeace asked me to accept this award...

Fashion and mode among the youth is a kind of social values and trends. Parentship conflict and generation gap make a great distance between parents and children. This paper tries to study the high school girls attitudes toward fashion in Minab. The present survey uses theories frameworks like, Bourdiou, Zimel and Veblen. More than 312 high-school girls were analyzed as sample group in Minab. T...

1Cancer Care Centre, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia; 2St. George and Sutherland Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Kensington, Australia; 3Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW, Kensington, Australia; 4School of Medical Science, UNSW, Kensington, Australia; 5SEALS, Anatomical Pathology, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia; 6Depar...