Mosquito Life in Surrey during 1921

The life and career of professor Parviz Dabiri (1921-2012).

Dr. Parviz Dabiri (1921–2012) was a distinguished professor of pathology at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran and an in uential mentor who devoted most of his fruitful life to the promotion of science and culture. He passed away, at age 91, on July 3, 2012 in Isfahan. Professor Dabiri was born in Tehran to an educated family. His father, Seyed Mehdi Agha was a senior of cial of the...

Surrey County Council

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...

The biosynthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid during the life-span of the mosquito.

Previous results from this laboratory [Kao et al, (1976) Biochem. J. 154, 471-480] demonstrated that a low-molecular-weight DNA species, "sDNA", present in high concentrations during rapid larval growth of the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, may be an intermediate in DNA replication. We have now determined the life-span profiles of synthetic rates and the steady-state contents of sDNA and...