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Requested Interface

This paper introduces the Requested Interface pattern which describes ways to implement truly independent software components that can be plugged together as needed in order to make reuse more attractive than reimplementation. It encourages components to delegate subtasks to collaborating servers so that they can be adapted to a new context by simply exchanging those subtask servers. The delega...

Biographical Sketches

Some notable names in renal medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Abercrombie moved from successful general practice into the Royal Public Dispensary as a consultant and was appointed physician to the King in Scotland. President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and a contemporary of Sir Robert Christison both ...

Biographical methods

Biographical essay.

Biographical Memoir

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