Obituary Ove Svendsen 1944-2007

The environmental impact of dairy production: 1944 compared with 2007.

A common perception is that pasture-based, low-input dairy systems characteristic of the 1940s were more conducive to environmental stewardship than modern milk production systems. The objective of this study was to compare the environmental impact of modern (2007) US dairy production with historical production practices as exemplified by the US dairy system in 1944. A deterministic model based...

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

Obituary: Professor John Henry, MBBS, FRCP, FFAEM (1939–2007)

John Henry was educated at St Joseph’s Academy at Blackheath in London and qualified MBBS from King’s College Hospital, London in 1965. He obtained the MRCP (UK) Diploma in 1974 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1986. He was appointed as Consultant Physician to the Poisons Unit at Guy’s Hospital in 1982 and continued in that role until he became P...

Cell Ove C 6

ownload blastoma multiforme is an extremely aggressive and clinically unresponsive form of cancer. Transformed stic neural stem cells, resistant to chemotherapy and radiation therapy, are thought to be responsible for itial tumor formation and the recurrence of disease following surgical resection. These stem cells express rug resistance markers along with CD133. We show that ectopic overexpres...

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