Division of Imaging, Kings College, PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital, Guys’ and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust, London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, City and Royal Victoria Hospitals Belfast, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK Correspondence to Dr Sally F. Barrington...

Participating in the seminar’s first session were Dr. William R. Richardson, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, who served as moderator, Dr. Thomas Santulli, Children’s Surgeon at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, Dr. Marel H. Harmel, Anesthesiologist at Kings County Hospital, and Dr. Lawrence K. Pickett, Chief of Surgery at the State University of New York Medical Center i...

According to an Anglo-Saxon pun, "gout is the king of diseases and the disease of Kings". In fact, it is well-known that in past times a quantity of famous persons, including Kings and Popes, were affected with this rheumatic disorder. In this paper biographical anecdotes on several Popes (Pius III, Julius II, Julius III, Clement VIII, Innocent XI, Clement XII and Pius VIII), King George IV and...

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Groundwater quality is a concern in alluvial aquifers underlying agricultural areas worldwide. Nitrate from land applied fertilizers or from animal waste can leach to groundwater and contaminate drinking water resources. The San Joaquin Valley, California, is an example of an agricultural landscape with a large diversity of field, vegetable, tree, nut, and citrus crops, but also confined animal...

A large scholarship claims that states led by women are less conflictual than states led by men. However, it is theoretically unclear why female leaders would favor more conciliatory war policies. And, it is empirically challenging to identify the effect of female rule, since women may gain power disproportionately during periods of peace. We surmount this challenge by exploiting features of he...

This article deals with the war magic as described in Sanskrit Śaiva tantric texts written between 5th and 12th Century A.D. period marks a shift from invocation of Aghora/Bhairava main war-helping god to rituals invoking terrible goddesses, mātṛkās, yoginīs. At same time, religious specialists were invited exchange their magical knowledge for kings’ patronage such contexts war, drought, epidem...