James Howard-Johnston. The Late Sasanian Army

A Late Sasanian Coin Hoard from Orumiyeh

The coinage of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is not only the most important primary source for its monetary and economic history, but also of greatest relevance for its history and art history.Coin hoards are of pivotal importance for studying Sasanian coinage. On August 29,2007,two jars were unearthed during the construction work for the new border sentry post of “Havār-Barxāh-loh” in the P...

The Late Surgeon James Fawcus

The Johnston – Kennedy Era

THE SURGEONS I first met Mr (as he was then) George Johnston and Mr Terence Kennedy in the old Wards 5 and 6 in the Royal Victoria Hospital (now demolished) 2 when I was a student. They had strikingly different personalities-Mr Kennedy was more than a little daunting but both were constantly stimulating and renowned teachers. The teaching ward rounds revealed surgical cases in the true sense of...

Jane Johnston - Final Paper.PDF

The Internet has raised student plagiarism to a new level. Never before has access to information been as easy, and never before have students had such a capacity to search, order, borrow, copy, cut and paste. This paper offers a critical perspective on current practices that deal with student plagiarism, while placing the issue into the context of current Internet culture. As cyber-plagiarism ...

David R. Johnston

I give a brief review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). The methods used to constrain YP by the CMBR are then discussed, including methods later discarded in favor of others. To conclude, I give limits found by our analysis and discuss the implications of said limits.