From Eisenhower’s heart attack to modern management: a true success story!

From Architecture to Requirements: A Success Story

User requirements for telecommunication systems are difficult to understand because they are obscured by a long history of ad hoc feature development and technological limitations. The presence of a viable modular architecture for telecommunication features gives us a fresh start. Working within this framework, we can discover desirable properties that ought to be requirements for all telecommu...

A true case story

Autism is not generally recognized as a condition which can be bio-medically influenced. As of today, there are no biomarkers for autism that are recognized by traditional medicine. Treating autism medically is a difficult and hopeless task according to official guidelines (even though it is seldom written in official documents). Parents of many children who have or had an ASD diagnosis have wi...

Heart attack or rhabdomyolysis?

 Statins are commonly used drugs in the treatment of hyperlipidemia (HL), despite some undesirable side effects. These range from mild symptoms such as myopathy, muscle weakness and myalgia to severe muscle weakness associated with chronic myopathy and acute renal failure (ARF) as a result of rhabdomyolysis. The most serious and deadly side effect of statins is rhabdomyolysis. The case presente...

A Success Story . . . to be continued

Polyolefins, a Success Story

This paper reports the principal discoveries which have played a major role in the polyolefin field and have positioned polyolefins as the most produced plastics. The early development of polyolefins covering the production of LDPE (Low density polyethylene) at ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) and the discovery of Phillips or Ziegler-Natta catalysts are highlighted in the first section. In th...