New York-Tidewater Chapters' History of Military Medicine Award

Chapters in the social history of medicine in Brazil

New York University School of Medicine.

Although much has been written about implementing mission-based management tools to help facilitate managing the primary academic missions at academic medical centers, there is surprisingly little written on standardized methodologies to align financial support across the academic and clinical missions. However, professional fee reimbursement has not kept pace with costs, and this, combined wit...

The New York Academy of Medicine.

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

l•In Chapter I* it was shown that the compass had been brought into use in northwestern Europe for the purposes of navigation by the year 1187, that its first mention in the literature of that year does not refer to it as being of recent introduction, that the discovery of the directive property of a magnet in the Earth's f•eld must have preceded this application by some considerable time, but ...

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

1--The science of Terrestrial Magnetism is based on the fact that a magnet, free to move about its center of gravity, tends to assume a position of relative rest in an approximately definite direction with respect to the geographical meridian and the vertical at the place of observation. That it should do so must be due to the existence of a field of force which is known as the terrestrial magn...