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Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)

Edward Charles Dodds [3] researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones [4] on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones [4] such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen [5] in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds syn...

Goodbye Ted (An Obituary for Edward G. Jones)

the discipline, characterized by the use of axonal transport tracers. He became a true master of electron microscopy and of the immunocytochemical techniques required to visualize neurotransmitters and their receptors, and moved on to new techniques to study the expression of specific genes and transcription factors. Ted was always capable of using the newest tools to study his two preferred br...

Edward Charles Dodds, 13 October 1899--16 December 1973.

Charles Darwin's debt to Malthus and Edward Blyth.

The traditional view of Darwin's development of the theory of natural selection is that Darwin was inspired to formulate his theory by reading Mathus' Essay on Population. 1 According to a different notion, Darwin overemphasized his debt to Mathus regarding natural selection in order to hide the impact of other writers, in particular Edward Blyth, on his own thinking. 2 The purpose of this pape...

Charles H . Sauer Edward A . MacNair Silvio Salza A Language for Extended Queuing Network Models

Queuing networks are popular us models of performance of computer systems and communication networks. The Research Queueing Package, Version 2 (RESQ2), is a system ,for constructing and solving extended queuing network models. We refer to the class of RESQ2 networks as “extended” because of characteristics absent from most queuing models, RESQ2 incorporates a high-level language to concisely de...