IT IS well known that Sydenham recommended classifying diseases 'with the same care which we see exhibited by botanists in their phytologies'.1 He suggested elsewhere that attempts to discover the causes of diseases were doomed to fail,2 man's faculties being shaped 'to perceive only the superficies of bodies, not the minute processes in nature's "abyss of cause" '. It is thus man's duty to con...

Congress recently considered some proposals to split the Ninth Circuit, proposals that could have far-reaching effects on the environment, public lands, and natural resources. This Article first looks at some of the recent developments in Congress, particularly the authorization of a national study commission to examine the federal appeals courts. Professor Tobias predicts that the Ninth Circui...

were tested at the first, fifth, and ninth transplant generation with spleen lymphocytes from BALB/c mice that were immunized against syngeneic tumors, allogeneic tumors, or embryo cells. Individual antigens were detected on fibrosarcomas at the first and fifth transplant passage, whereas they were undetectable on the eight tumors tested at the ninth passage. Lymphocytes sensitized against a po...

BACKGROUND the STOPP/START criteria are a promising framework to increase appropriate prescribing in the elderly in clinical practice. However, the current definitions of the STOPP/START criteria are rather non-specific, allowing undesirable variations in interpretation and thus application. The aim of this study was to design specifications of the STOPP/START criteria into international diseas...

The proper study of mankind is man.' In its early years angina pectoris was for the most part an affliction of middle-aged and elderly men, almost exclusively a complaint of the affluent and a "British disease".2 It was first reported in 1768 and became prevalent by the 1770s, a time when the population of England was growing rapidly and its expectation of life lengthening. It is therefore pert...

This research is aimed at improving the ninth-grade students’ speaking skill through Problem Based Learning (PBL) method when it applied in teaching speaking. The was carried out action research. researcher acted with students and English teacher as collaborator. subjects of were 20 Ninth Grade SMPN 3 Tungkal Jaya, Musi Banyuasin academic year 2021/2022. data collection included application t...