Cyrus Clay Carpenter and Iowa Politics, 1854-1898

Wooden Politics: Bernhard Fernow and the Quest for a National Forest Policy, 1876-1898

England's “Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the politics of government growth, 1832–1854

Interested scholars, occupied with these matters in their own research, will want to read Borkowsky's tidy summaries. But more general readers may give the book a pass. The 2,272 utterances of authorities simply do not add up to a thoughtful account placing doctors and their patients in relationship to each other or in the context of their times. It is the kind of book a punch-card sorter might...

Cyrus Coope and Elaine Dennison tissue disease ?

The carpenter syndrome phenotype.

Carpenter syndrome (Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type II), first described in 1901, consists of acrocephaly, syndactyly, polydactyly, congenital heart disease, mental retardation, hypogenitalism, cryptorchidism, obesity, umbilical hernia and bony abnormalities. We report a 6 years old boy presenting as a union of these malformations and also having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Auditory di...

Lecturer : Sorin Istrail Scribe : Cyrus Cousins

Generally, in DNA sequence alignment, we have chosen the substitution matrix δ by assigning a match cost and a mismatch cost. With protein sequences, the situation is more complicated: in some situations, some amino acids are largely interchangeable, and in others, an exchange completely changes the structure and function of the resultant protein. In this sense, all mismatches are not created e...