Looking Back 45 Years Later

Looking Back at 45 Years of Computational Physics and Chemistry

Virtual Groups 45 Years Later

In 1961 George Mackey introduced the concept of a virtual group as an equivalence class under similarity of ergodic measured groupoids, and he developed this circle of ideas in subsequent papers in 1963 and 1966. The goal here is first to explain these ideas, place them in a larger context, and then to show how they have influenced and helped to shape developments in four different but related ...

Clinical pharmacy: looking 20 years back... looking 20 years forward.

Angaran: We have two main goals in this panel discussion. First, to describe the current status of the health care delivery environment, the medication use system, and the pharmacy profession. And second, to discuss the specific challenges and opportunities for pharmacy over the next 5–10 years. Our hope is that you identify at least one specific action that you can apply that will catalyze cha...

“ The Denervated Muscle ” – 45 Years Later Bruce

Forty five years after its publication, Ernest Gutmann’s book, “The Denervated Muscle,” still stands as a landmark publication. It summarized the state of knowledge of the time and introduced much new research that was ongoing at the Institute of Physiology in Prague. At the time, the response of a muscle to denervation was viewed primarily through the lens of the neurotrophic theory. Advances ...

Looking back at Jerzy Konorski's book "Integrative Activity of the Brain" 45 years after.

This article presents historical background preceding writing and publication of Jerzy Konorski book "Integrative Activity of the Brain" followed by a short description of the main topics covered in the book. Two new and original contributions of Konorski are presented in detail, his theory of the motivational processes and the organization of the sensory systems in the brain. Those two contrib...