As microbiologist, traveller, photographer, lover of music, and historian of medicine, there were few interests that Sydney Selwyn did not touch with distinction. For him, all his interests were one, and to hear his discourse in full flight was to recognize something of an inner connectivity perceived in all things. His areas of knowledge and enthusiasm were indeed legion, and even during his l...

he word attention has had more varied usages than perhaps any other in psychology, all of which imply both intensive and selective aspects. Models of attention date back to Aristotle, who considered attention as a narrowing of the senses. All science is based on the attention paid to models and philosophies of thinking that drive scientific enquiry. And it is on the basis of what appears to be ...

Pedro Zucchetti Filho reviews Facial Recognition by Mark Andrejevic and Neil Selwyn

The most common type of congenital haemolytic anaemia found in Great Britain is familial haemolytic anaemia (chronic acholuric jaundice). A similar congenital haemolytic anaemia may be found on rare occasions in children in whom the red cells do not show spherocytosis, or increased osmotic fragility. The response to splenectomy is not very satisfactory and the syndrome does not fit into the est...

Introduction A major concern about the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in adult education is that the digital divide may reinforce the already existing learning divide, because it runs along the same lines of socio-economic class, gender and ethnicity (eg, Gorard & Selwyn, 2005). Many researchers report a socio-economic digital divide, as well as a gender gap, although the...

Analgesics in Terminal Disease Cicely M. S. Saunders, M.R.C.P., and Dame Albertine L. Winner, F.R.C.P ............. 245 Halothane Hepatitis B. R. Simpson, F.F.A. R.C.S., and others ...... 245 Functions of the G.M.C. Myre Sim, F.R.C.P.ED. .................. 246 Lymphocyte Sensitization P. M. D'Arcy Hart, F.R.C.P., and D. N. Mitchell, M.D ........................... 246 Vitamin B12 and Metformin ...

10.1128/AAC.49.7.2589-2597.2005. 2005, 49(7):2589. DOI: Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. Raymond F. Schinazi Harold M. McClure, Chung K. Chu, Dennis C. Liotta and Thierry Beltran, Shuli Mao, Selwyn J. Hurwitz, Jason Grier, Brenda I. Hernandez-Santiago, Huachun Chen, Ghazia Asif, Monkeys -Oxa-5-Fluorocytidine in Cells and Rhesus ′ -Dideoxy-3 ′ ,3 ′ -d-2 β Antiviral Agent Pharmacology and Pharmacoki...

Before the advent of AZT in 1987 and protease inhibitors in the 1990s, AIDS was an unknown and untreatable illness. At the beginning of the epidemic, physicians struggled with the inevitable loss of their patients. Dr. Peter Selwyn was among these physicians, but has distinguished himself through his tireless work in this area. He is a well-known and respected scientist and clinician, and it is...