Paul Silverman dies

The spirit never dies

Received: 3 October 2005 Accepted: 3 October 2005 I met Claudio as late as the year 2000. We had known one another by name for some time and we had had the occasional exchange of e-mails and a few telephone calls but did not happen to meet in person, as we operated in slightly different fields. I deeply regret that. Claudio will surely remain an important intellectual figure in the interdiscipl...

Who dies from hernia?

Over 700 deaths in England and Wales each year are ascribed to an underlying cause of abdominal hernia, considerably more than for cholelithiasis, pancreatitis or inflammatory bowel disease. Abdominal hernias are considered amenable to surgical intervention, therefore hernia mortality is regarded as largely avoidable. None the less substantial variations in mortality exist at district level wit...

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Nobody ever dies of overpopulation.

Those of us who are deeply concerned about population and the environment — "econuts," we're called, — are accused of seeing herbicides in trees, pollution in running brooks, radiation in rocks, and overpopulation everywhere. There is merit in the accusation. I was in Calcutta when the cyclone struck East Bengal in November 1970. Early dispatches spoke of 15,000 dead, but the estimates rapidly ...

Representative Characteristics of Felder-silverman Learning Styles:

Learning styles are more and more incorporated in technology enhanced learning and a lot of research work is done in this area. For example, systems are developed which provide adaptivity according to the learning styles of students; relationships to students’ performance and other characteristics of students such as cognitive traits are investigated, and techniques are designed to derive the l...