The political events and global socio-economic reforms carried out by social democrats in the early 20th century, expansion of capital Austria inflow working class caused building a “garden city” with rich infrastructure, parks available comfortable dwelling. skills advanced Austrian architects, ideological meaning together economic forces, spatial concept socialist slogans gave birth to new ar...

1 Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, No. 113. 2 Crozier, W. J., and Arey, L. B., " Sensory reactions of Chromodoris zebra," J. Exper. Zool., Phila., (in press). 3 Crozier, W. J., 1919, J. Gen. Physiol., Baltimore, 1, No. 6. 4 For more detailed treatment of the complex conditions here entering, consult papers cited in footnotes two and three. 6 cf. Parker, G. H., 191...

BACKGROUND The 1918-1919 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic killed approximately 50 million people worldwide. Historical records suggest that an early pandemic wave struck Europe during the summer of 1918. METHODS We obtained surveillance data that were compiled weekly, during 1910-1919, in Copenhagen, Denmark; the records included medically treated influenza-like illnesses (ILIs), hospitalizations, a...

Relaxation oscillations are commonly associated with the name of Balthazar van der Pol via his paper (Philosophical Magazine, 1926) in which he apparently introduced this terminology to describe the nonlinear oscillations produced by self-sustained oscillating systems such as a triode circuit. Our aim is to investigate how relaxation oscillations were actually discovered. Browsing the literatur...

This book written by Dr. Guy, the well-known tuberculosis officer for the city of Edinburgh, is a very valuable addition to the literature on this subject. The book contains 27 chapters. Of these the first 6 are taken up with introduction, epidemiology, description of the bacillus, the spread of infection, pathology and predisposition. The next 14 chapters are taken up with diagnosis, and the d...

Salvator Karabaić was born in Krk in 1884. In 1904, he finished a grammar school in Susak, and in 1910 graduated from the Vienna Medical School. From 1910 to 1919, he worked in Pula/Pola and Kovin. From 1919 to 1929 he worked at the Institute for Mental illnesses Stenjevec (today the Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce) where in 1921 he became the head physician (orig. primarius) at the age of 37 years...

BACKGROUND The causes of recurrent waves in the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic are not fully understood. OBJECTIVES To identify the risk factors for influenza onset, spread and mortality in waves 1, 2 and 3 (summer, autumn and winter) in England and Wales in 1918-1919. METHODS Influenza mortality rates for 333 population units and putative risk factors were analysed by correlation and by regr...

BACKGROUND Despite the availability of published data on 4 pandemics that have occurred over the past 120 years, there is little modern information on the causes of death associated with influenza pandemics. METHODS We examined relevant information from the most recent influenza pandemic that occurred during the era prior to the use of antibiotics, the 1918-1919 "Spanish flu" pandemic. We exa...