A Tribute to Charles Stein

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

Charles Saul Lieber, a tribute (13 February 1931 to 1 March 2009).

Hepatologists, gastroenterologists and alcohol researchers throughout the world were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr Charles Saul Lieber on 1 March 2009. Dr Lieber died at his home in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, at the age of 78. Charles Lieber was the father of modern alcohol research: he was a pioneer and giant in the field starting to investigate the effects of alcohol on the liver as ...

Stein’s Method for the Bootstrap Dedicated to Charles Stein on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Stein’s method proves weak-convergence results through approximations to expectations without direct use of characteristic functions, allowing it to be used in complex problems with dependence. In this work we show how consistency can be proved and even some error terms provided for any bootstrap with exchangeable weights using Stein’s method. We say that the bootstrap works if the distance bet...

Membrane Science and Research: A Tribute to Professor Takeshi Matsuura

A Tribute to Jan

Returning to the University of Uppsala after 1 year in ON DECEMBER 1, 1996, the world lost one of this century’s giants in hematology. Jan Gosta WaldenMunich, he studied diseases associated with an elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Waldenström ström was born the son and grandson of physicians in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 17, 1906. During his long and distindescribed three...