Homer’s Ogygia: An Imaginary or a Historiography?

[Bird flu: a real or imaginary threat?].

Historiography; a bibiography

Diagnostic criteria ofsyphilis, yaws and treponarid (treponematoses) and of some other diseases in dry bones (for use in osteo-archaeology), Berlin, Methods of diagnosing or denying syphilis in ancient bones is of vital significance for the interpretation of the early history of syphilis. Dr. Hackett has taken the first essential step, which is the establishment of diagnostic criteria of syphil...

Homers regulate calcium entry and aggregation in human platelets: a role for Homers in the association between STIM1 and Orai1.

Homer is a family of cytoplasmic adaptor proteins that play different roles in cell function, including the regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors. These proteins contain an Ena (Enabled)/VASP (vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein) homology 1 domain that binds to the PPXXF sequence motif, which is present in different Ca²⁺-handling proteins such as IP3 (inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate) recepto...

Pharmaceutical Historiography

Pharmaceutical Historiography, ed. by A. BERMAN (Proceedings of a Colloquium sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy on the occasion of the Institute's 25th Anniversary, Madison, Wisconsin, 22-23 January, 1966), Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, 1967, pp. 145, $2.00. This volume deals with (a) George Urdang's concepts on the framework of ...

An Introduction to Imaginary Geometry

This expository paper is based on the theory of imaginary geometry, due to Sheffield and Miller. We aim to explain enough of the theory for the reader to understand the main constructions and some basic interactions between them in a short time. We suppress the more technical aspects when possible to focus attention on building geometric intuition.