first imagining such a thing to be possible rested with Sir Christopher Wren. He detailed his first attempts in 1665 or '69, at which the Hon. Robert Boyle and Wilkins assisted, mentioning that to Boyle belonged the honour of having first suggested its application to human beings. In a very incomplete review he traversed the work done in the following centuries. He pointed out that about the la...

NOT LONG after the sense of pleasure at the privilege of being invited to give this Sydenham Lecture, I found myself troubled by my own attitude to what I knew of Sydenham. Like many others I had been introduced to Sydenham as the English Hippocrates, the clinical observer untrammelled by theory, and turning to Sydenham's Medical observations I had expected to find something similar to the clin...

makers such as Fraunhofer, Amici, Selligue and Chevalier? Also, the figures of the plate from the 1787 Essays on the microscope were not drawn thanks to an Adams microscope, but are copies, probably made by a camera obscura, of original figures taken from the works of Trembley (1744, 1747), Baker (1753), Rosel von Rosenhof (1755), and others. This certainly does not affect the high quality of t...

Psychometric Properties of the Revised Teachers' Attitude Toward Inclusion Scale Jeremy J. Monsen, Donna L. Ewing & James Boyle a East London Consortium of Educational Psychologists, Waltham Forest Council Summerfield Centre, London, England, UK b School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, UK c School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, ...

Value from the perspective of the customer is fundamental to firm success (Holbrook, 2005; Sweeney and Soutar, 2001; Ulaga and Eggert, 2006). Given that customers are individuals, and differ in terms of how they see themselves and what they value; individual customers willingly or unwillingly participate in the cocreation of brand value (Kates, 2004), and whilst there is general agreement about...

An old problem in matrix theory is to determine the n-tuples of complex numbers which can occur as the spectrum of a matrix with nonnegative entries (see [BP94, Chapter 4] or [Min88, Chapter VII]). Authors have studied the case where the ntuple is comprised of real numbers [Bor95, Cia68, Fri78, Kel71, Per53, Sal72, Sou83, Sul49], the case where the matrices under consideration are symmetric [Fi...