Dr George Scott Stirling

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Dr Robert George (Rob) Jones FRCPsych

The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Library. An annotated catalogue of their books at Dr. Williams's Library, London

together with a consideration of the important similarities and common ground it shares with medical sociology, its sister discipline. They argue cogently for the data and models of the latter to be taken into account by anthropologists interested in the social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Their basic anthropological tenets are first the "adaptive" nature of health-related beh...

Stirling Distributions and Stirling

The left-truncated generalized Poisson distribution belongs to the family of the modified power series distributions. Using sufficiency and completeness of £ ^ x . (minx , , $ 3 x 0 ) respectively, when the truncation point is known (resp. unknown), the minimum variance unbiased (M.V.U) estimator for certain functions of the parameter $ (resp. 0, r) involved in these distributions can be obtain...

Peering into peer review: Galileo, ESP, Dr Scott Reuben, and advancing our professional evolution.

The fundamental purpose of peer review is quality control that facilitates the introduction of information into our discipline; information that is essential to the care of patients who require anesthesia services. While the AANA Journal relies heavily on this process to maintain the overall quality of our scholarly literature, it may fail that objective under certain conditions. This editorial...