Explorations in British North Borneo, 1883-87

1883 - 4566

Mobile robot networks emerged in the past few years as a promising distributed computing model. Existing work in the literature typically ensures the correctness of mobile robot protocols via ad hoc handwritten proofs, which are both cumbersome and error-prone. This paper surveys state-of-the-art results about applying formal methods approaches (namely, model-checking, program synthesis, and pr...

Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967.

Variant Alleles in XRCC1 Arg194Trp and Arg399Gln Increase Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancer in Sabah, North Borneo

Cancer is a disease of major impact in world health of which gastrointestinal cancer (GIC) is the most common cancer causing high mortality. According to a report by National Cancer Registry in 2011, a total of 18 219 new cancer incidences were diagnosed among Malaysian population in 2007. Colorectal cancer was recorded as second highest percentage of cancer that occurred in Malaysians after br...

Leonard Colebrook (1883?1967)

Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units ...

Muriel Robertson, 1883-1973.