extended abstract 1. introduction abbasid period can be regarded as an epoch in which poetry and eulogy in persia reached maturity, i.e., in which poetry has become a means of praise and admiration (dayf, 2006, p. 565). the kings of this dynasty gathered a group of flattered eulogists and used them for political announcements (alebadi, 2006, p. 13), by allocating precious gifts of war booty to ...

WE are all, I suppose, a little prone to assume that what is new to us is necessarily new to everyone else; and that of what we have lately learned others must necessarily be ignorant. The mere fact that I mention such a truism may, however, be taken as a proof that I do not share in the belief. In this South African caapaign-rather prematurely called in some quarters the Transvaal war-there ar...

April 1913, and passed away on the 10th of November 2013 in Houston. He graduated from Chicago High School in 1930, was made Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1941 (Michigan State University) and Master of Public Health in 1942 (Harvard University). He was involved in the creation of the first national veterinary public health programs, both for the US government (Veterinary Public Health Progra...

&THE ABILITY TO perform DNA analysis, clinical diagnostics, and biomolecule detection and manipulation using miniaturized devices has many practical applications. Although designing and testing such devices is challenging, researchers and engineers are beginning to build labs on chips (LoCs) with exciting functionality. LoC applications include synthesizing new materials, studying complex cellu...

A career journalist of the Richmond Times Dispatch, Chip Jones reports first heart transplant performed in Richmond, Virginia, at Medical College Virginia Hospital (MCV) May 1968 his book The Organ Thieves. was by Richard Lower with David Sewall excising donor from an African American who had died because a head injury (skull fracture and subdural hematoma) following fall sitting on wall baseba...

We are gathered in Toronto, today, to render homage to Prof. Keiichi TANAKA, one of the most outstanding electron microscopists of our times. There are occasions, such as this, when the peers select one of their own to pay a tribute on their behalf, to a person who distinguished himself, in a certain field, by the continuous excellence of his lasting contributions. Actually, I feel more honor b...

humanitarian mood, not at all intent on the use of infamous machines for decapitation but rather concerned with the procurement of vaccine for the general good. There is also a letter from John Coakley Lettsom to a local surgeon with evidence of at least one reason why the necessity for re-vaccination was for so long ignored in this country. Lettsom wrote: "About three years ago, some children ...

ALTHOUGH ample justice has been done to him in France, where tributes were paid to him shortly after his death by Roger and Bergeron, and his memory has been kept alive within recent years by the articles of Lereboullet and Lutaud and Dejeant's thesis, Bouillaud is not so well known in this country as he deserves. Bouillaud was one of the most distinguished physicians of the nineteenth century,...

Default inheritance reasoning is a propositional approach to nonmonotonic reasoning designed to model reasoning with natural language generics. Inheritance reasoners model sets of natural language generics as directed acyclic graphs, and inference corresponds to the speci cation of paths through those networks. A proliferation of inheritance proof theories exist in the literature along with ext...

Welcome to a very special issue of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. This issue marks the end of another year and also represents the last issue of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis to carry the name of the founding editor, Eberhard F. Mammen, as the editor in chief. As recently announced in a previous issue of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Eberhard passed away on July 1 of th...