COCCIDÆ OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

The State of Pathology in the British Colonies of North America *

"Pathology" during the 17th and 18th centuries, both in Great Britain and the Continent and in the British colonies of North America, was by no means the well-defined division of medicine that it later became. The name, to be sure, had long been in use (at least since the time of Galen) to signify, rather loosely, the nature of disease.12 It is in the broader sense of the word (i.e., including ...

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America

Forest carbon in North America: annual storage and emissions from British Columbia’s harvest, 1965–2065

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The default international accounting rules estimate the carbon emissions from forest products by assuming all harvest is immediately emitted to the atmosphere. This makes it difficult to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) consequences of different forest management or manufacturing activities that maintain the storage of carbon. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang...

Outside North America

ions and first-class procedures We've seen two ways to express the square-root computation as an instance of a more general method, once as a fixed-point search and once using Newton's method. Since Newton's method was itself expressed as a fixed-point process, we actually saw two ways to compute square roots as fixed points. Each method begins with a function and finds a fixed point of some tr...