Michael Ter-Avanesyan (1949-2018) – Advent of the scientist

In Memoriam, P. Michael Conn, PhD (1949–2016)

With the sudden passing of P. Michael Conn, the Endocrine Society lost one of the hardestworking scientists we have known. Michael was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, received his BS from the University of Michigan, his MS from North Carolina State University, and his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine (working in Bert O’Malley’s laboratory). Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dufau-Ca...

The advent of IEEE 802

IEEE 802.16 is a promising standard that is expected to solve the “last mile” Internet access issue in a metropolitan area. In IEEE 802.16, several TDMA-based scheduling schemes are designed to provide “collisionfree” transmission of control messages. In this paper, we investigate the performance of coordinated distributed scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Mode, under realistic non-quasi-interfere...

Death, after-death and the human in the Internet era: Remembering, not forgetting Professor Michael C. Kearl (1949-2015)

Today, humans have remains that are other than physical, generated within and supported by new information communications technologies (ICTs). As with human remains of the past, these are variously attended to or ignored. In this article, which serves as the introduction to this special issue, we examine the reality, meaning and use of enduring digital remains of humans. We are specifically int...

The Advent of Lifestyle Medicine

The fact that lifestyle is closely associated with the pathogenesis of chronic diseases has been known for more than three decades. Smoking may cause lung cancer, and a lifestyle of fast food consumption and little exercise can cause metabolic diseases. The importance of lifestyle changes in terms of a new medical paradigm to solve chronic diseases is becoming popular in modern times. Lifestyle...

Michael Gutmann Edited and expanded by Arno Onken Spring Semester 2018