On the 50 Years Anniversary

Anniversary: 50 years of glucocorticoid treatment in rheumatoid arthritis.

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Towards the 50 anniversary of Machine Scheduling

The most urgent organizational problems of the present-day Theory of Scheduling (TS) are discussed, namely: creating a database in the Internet aimed to accumulate all information about the results obtained in TS; elaboration of a new problem classification for TS that could be taken for the foundation of the proposed database and would be targeted to eliminate the gap between Project and Machi...

50-Year Anniversary of Sliding Filament

In this issue of the Journal we mark a milestone in physiology , the 50th anniversary of the publication in Nature Changes in the cross-striations of muscle during contraction and stretch and their structural interpretation. Nature. 173:973–976) which formulated the sliding filament hypothesis of muscle contraction. Two historical reviews remind us of the significance this early work. One, by A...

The Soviet "Doctors' Plot"-50 years on.

The Everett Interpretation: 50 years on

The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics was apparent shortly after the theory’s invention, in the mid 1920s, by Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac. It is recognizably the successor to the problem of wave-particle duality. Its origins therefore lie with the very beginnings of the discovery of the quantum. It has never been laid to rest. It haunts us still. If anything the problem is beco...