Egypt and Serbia: Rich history and bright shared future

Luminescence in Sulfides: A Rich History and a Bright Future

Sulfide-based luminescent materials have attracted a lot of attention for a wide range of photo-, cathodoand electroluminescent applications. Upon doping with Ce 3+ and Eu 2+ , the luminescence can be varied over the entire visible region by appropriately choosing the composition of the sulfide host. Main application areas are flat panel displays based on thin film electroluminescence, field em...

Recent Children's Policy and Legislative Developments in Virginia: A Brief History, A Bright Future

The checkered history and bright future of intrauterine contraception in the United States.

No method of contraception stirs quite as much heated discussion and debate as the IUD. The reasons the IUD has this distinction are simple: People's opinions have been shaped by a body of seemingly discrepant (and sometimes mythical) evidence, and the issues this evidence addresses are fundamental. How does the IUD prevent pregnan-cy? What is the true relationship of IUD use to pelvic in-flamm...

The American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology: a long history, a bright future.

IN 1887 AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, the American Physiological Society (APS) was founded by five clinician scientists (12). Silas Weir Mitchell was, by training, a neurologist, and Henry Pickering Bowditch was a cardiovascular physiologist who had trained in Germany with Carl Ludwig. They joined Henry Newell Martin, an Irish-born cardiovascular physiologist from Johns Hopkins; Russell Henry Chittenden...

The history, fungal biodiversity, conservation, and future perspectives for mycology in Egypt

Records of Egyptian fungi, including lichenized fungi, are scattered through a wide array of journals, books, and dissertations, but preliminary annotated checklists and compilations are not all readily available. This review documents the known available sources and compiles data for more than 197 years of Egyptian mycology. Species richness is analysed numerically with respect to the systemat...