Hugh Seton-Watson, 1916–1984

Loose Seton: A Misnomer of Cutting Seton

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate loose silk seton actually acts as a slow cutting seton contrary to the idea of simply drainage. Besides, to show the effect of loose seton on patient’s incontinence is mostly proportional to the degree of division of the sphincter muscle. Design: Fifty patients with high transsphincteric fistulas were treated with loose seton technique. We m...

Eblen Maryam Kamvar Seton Marshall

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Bayesian methods provide an eeective tool for shrinkage in wavelet models. An important issue in any Bayesian analysis is the elicita-tion of a prior distribution. Elicitation in the wavelet domain is considered by rst describing the structure of a wavelet model, and examining several prior distributions that are used in a variety of recent articles. Although elicitation has not been directly c...

Hugh Dickinson

Crump interprets the stories, rather than simply recounting them. Her background as a research biologist, and her fi eld experience with native peoples, give her a broad perspective on the topic. She weaves a deft blend of summary and commentary, and often returns to emergent themes. Why do particular species appear in leading roles? Why do snakes and toads so often end up both as hero and vill...

Professor Hugh Gurling MBBS

Professor Hugh Gurling, who died aged 63, was a pioneering psychiatrist who was determined to find the genes causing severe mental illness. His resolve to investigate the biological processes underlying disorders such as schizophrenia, manic depression and alcoholism was very much out of kilter with the rest of his academic colleagues when he began his quest in the late 1970s; the focus in psyc...