Israël Pincus Lazarovitch alias Irving Layton

Laurence Irving: an appreciation.

Laurence Irving (1895-1979) contributed significantly over five decades to the development of environmentally oriented physiological studies. He is best known for his investigations of the physiology of diving mammals, the respiratory properties of fish blood, and cold adaptation and acclimatization in poikilotherms and homeotherms, including man. Beyond his own research contributions, Irving b...

Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)

Gregory Goodwin Pincus [4], one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill [5], was born in Woodbine, New Jersey, on 19 April 1903 to Russian Jewish parents. In 1924 Pincus received his BS degree from Cornell University [6], and in 1927 he received his MS and PhD from Harvard University [7], having studied under William Ernest Castle [8] and...

Grafton E . Burke and Irving

The use of heparin and dicumarol has provided important information regarding the effectiveness and the difficulties of anticoagulant therapy. Neither, however, is an ideal anticoagulant; therefore a search for new substances with advantages over them must be continued. Tromexan, which is administered orally, appears to have the advantages of more rapid utilization and more rapid cessation of a...

George W . Fitzmaurice , Alias Azam Khan , Alias William Buxton , Buxton Design Gordon Kurtenbach , Alias

Alias Types

Linear type systems allow destructive operations such as object deallocation and imperative updates of functional data structures. These operations and others, such as the ability to reuse memory at different types, are essential in low-level typed languages. However, traditional linear type systems are too restrictive for use in low-level code where it is necessary to exploit pointer aliasing....