Dr. Maya Gunasekera (1961-2006)

Dr. Piraja Da Silva (1873-1961).

*"Tyagaraj",9-14-14,CBM Compound, Uplands, Visakhapatnam 530 003. B Pre Eminent Parasite Hunter: The commemorative stamp was issued by Brazil on 28 Dec 1959 to mark the centenary of the discovery of Schistosomiasis by Bilharz. The stamp depicts the profile of Dr Piraja da Silva and an inset showing the leaf-shaped adult male trematode (fluke) of S. mansoni holding a single threadlike female in ...

Dr LEE Jong-wook (1945-2006): a personal tribute.

Dr Jim Yong Kim is Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He was co-founder of the Boston-based advocacy group Partners In Health, which developed pioneering schemes to treat tuberculosis and HIV in resource poor settings. The group provides health services to men, women, and...

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

The Maya Forest: destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

B oth academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted formore than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted byMcNeil et al. (2) in this issue ...