Darcy Fontoura de Almeida (1930-2014)

The difficulty of coercion: a response to de Almeida.

The sentence The secretary began the memo requires specifying what event the secretary began, because the memo does not refer to an event. McElree, Traxler, Pickering, Seely, and Jackendoff (2001) and Traxler, Pickering, and McElree (2002) found evidence from both self-paced reading and eye-tracking that such sentences caused processing difficulty, and thus argued that people "coerced" the obje...

On the Hannay-Ozorio de Almeida sum formula

The Hannay-Ozorio de Almeida sum formula is a useful principle in the study of the distribution of closed orbits for Hamiltonian flows [7]. Roughly speaking, it asserts that an appropriately weighted sum of measures supported on periodic orbits converges to the physical measure as the periods become large. This formula was originally introduced and used in the study of Quantum Chaos. In particu...

Donald F. Steiner MD, 1930-2014: discoverer of proinsulin.

Donald F. Steiner, the A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, died at his home on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. He was 84 years old and had been a member of the faculty since 1960. Don was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He revolutionized our understanding of t...

[Heonir de Jesús Pereira da Rocha (*1930-2005)].

A Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical presta aqui uma homenagem à memória do Professor Heonir Rocha pela sua extraordinária contribuição à medicina brasileira, como professor universitário, médico clínico, cientista e como administrador universitário. Em cada uma destas atividades, ele deixou marcadas suas características como um homem inteligente, um arguto observador, excelen...

Sur les maladies contagieuses des Animaux domestiques, observées en Iran de 1930 à 1935 par Louis