Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s

Monographing in the 1980s

ALISO 11(2), 1985, pp. 231-242 The production of taxonomic monographs is discussed in light of the modem tools that are available for their preparation. There is a great need for more monographs since much of the world's flora is not treated in contemporary revisions. These should be a balance between the traditional aspects that must still be employed such as the nomenclatural framework and th...

MT in the 1970s and 1980s

(SK) Well I guess it is a slightly different answer for each of us, but essentially for all of us, it was through the Eurotra project. This was the MT project that was created by the European Commission in the late 1970s. The aim was to produce a high quality, fully automatic machine translation system for use by the EC. The EC had a serious translation problem because of the number of language...

Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s

This paper describes and considers explanations for changes in corporate governance and merger activity in the United States since 1980. Corporate governance in the 1980s was dominated by intense merger activity distinguished by the prevalence of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and hostility. After a brief decline in the early 1990s, substantial merger activity resumed in the second half of the decade...

Group Rebellion in the 1980s

Diet and heart disease in the 1980s.

In a climate of increasing concern about the high incidence of coronary heart disease in South Africa, calls are increasingly being made for South Africans to alter their diet. Can this exhortation be justified, and are the right foods being singled out as culprits? If changes in the eating habits of a nation are advocated, the advice must not only be soundly based in terms of likely benefit bu...