President's Message: 50 Years

50 years of Sterillium®

Celebrating 50 years

5 0 years ago, what would soon evolve to become the profession of respiratory therapy emerged as the Canadian Society of Inhalation Therapy Technicians. One year following the inception of the Society, Canadian Inhalation Therapy published its first issue. From the outset of the profession, research, evaluation and knowledge translation have been fundamental to advancing our understanding of re...

50 Years of Bailey’s Lemma

Half a century ago, The Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society published W. N. Bailey’s influential paper Identities of the Rogers–Ramanujan type [16]. The main result therein, which was inspired by Rogers’ second proof of the Rogers– Ramanujan identities [49] (and also [48, 28, 15]), is what is now known as Bailey’s lemma. To celebrate the occasion of the lemma’s fiftieth birthday we p...

Raupp: 50 years of neuroradiology.

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the laboral and intellectual contributions of a founder of Brazilian Neuroradiology to the development of specialty. METHOD Interviews were conducted with Dr. Raupp and contemporary doctors. Then we made a literature review with the Raupp search term aiming to identify those papers which included major changes in the diagnostic and therapeutic neurosurgical. RESULTS The c...

50 Years of Fusion Research

Fusion energy research began in the early 1950s as scientists worked to harness the awesome power of the atom for peaceful purposes. There was early optimism for a quick solution for fusion energy as there had been for fission. However, this was soon tempered by reality as the difficulty of producing and confining fusion fuel at temperatures of 100 million ◦C in the laboratory was appreciated. ...