DEATH OF FIELD-MARSHAL SIR LINTORN SIMMONS.

Keith Simmons

Computer scientists use formal verification to attempt to provide guarentees to the users of software about the run time characteristics of a given program. Verification techniques today often require a TCB or Trusted Code Base which due to time or effort constraints, the authors were not able to prove correct. When bugs occure in these pieces, they break down the strong guarentees of formal ve...

"Well Sir Thomas?": oration to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Sir Thomas Browne.

Now that we celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Sir Thomas Browne rather than his birth I intend to concentrate not on Browne's melancholia but on his joy, not on Hydriotaphia but on his happiest, most difficult, and most challenging piece, The Garden of Cyrus. Of his five major works, the Religio Medici an acknowledged masterpiece-was written by a physician not quite 30 y...

Did Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (montgomery of Alamein) Have Asperger's Syndrome?

In the present paper the evidence for Field Marshal Montgomery having Asperger's syndrome is examined. Biographies of Montgomery were examined to search for evidence that he met criteria for Asperger's syndrome - Gillberg (1991) and Asperger's disorder (APA.1994) and Anankastic personality disorder (WHO,1992). He demonstrates a qualitative impairment in social interaction and restricted repetit...

Remarks on the Death of Sir James Young Simpson

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Author correspondence to: Gwendolyn Quinn, PhD, Associate Member, Moffitt Cancer Center, Associate Professor, USF, College of Medicine, 12902 Magnolia Drive, MRC CANCONT, Tampa, FL 33612. Tel: (813) 745-1359 • Fax: (813) 449-8019 • Email: [email protected] Objective: Cancer health disparities are evident among Puerto Rican Hispanics, both for those on the island and in the mainland United ...