Paul Atkinson Festschrift

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It will be seen that approximately 50% of animals died and that there was no significant difference between those receiving folic acid and a control solution of either dextrose or NaHCO3. The kidney weights of animals examined are shown in Table 3. (The numbers of animals dying on days other than the fourth were so small as to make comparison of kidney weights difficult. Therefore weights deriv...

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source of faecal iodine is endogenous thyroid hormone, a fraction of which is excreted into the bile (Myant, 1956). Further evidence for an endogenous origin of faecal iodine is obtained from balance studies in patients with abnormal thyroid function (Harrison et al., 1965a). Patients with thyrotoxicosis excrete significantly more iodine in the faeces than normal, ranging from 21 to 72 ,tg/ day...

G. Gayle Stephens Festschrift.

Playing the Festschrift Game

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. Lauri’s insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hard-core formal linguistics...

The Man behind the Festschrift

Over 60 years ago, Peter Beighton and I both attended Arnold School, in the Lancashire town of Blackpool – a place, according to a music hall recital, ‘famous for fresh air and fun’! From there our professional careers have taken us to many fascinating places, including the remotest inhabited island in the world – Tristan da Cunha, in mid-South Atlantic. I was there in 1955 1956, as Senior Scie...