Professor Frank Raw

Professor Frank Pantridge – from Beriberi to pre-hospital coronary care

It is a pleasure to be the guest editor of this special supplement on Frank Pantridge. It commemorates a man who made a significant contribution to Ulster medicine, and who is regarded as the father of emergency medicine in the USA. The papers in the supplement were presented during the historical section of an international symposium on Frank’s legacy, held at Queens University Belfast, in Jun...

Frank Mittelbach

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...

Frank : Frank: The LOD Cloud at Your Fingertips

Large-scale, algorithmic access to LOD Cloud data has been hampered by the absence of queryable endpoints for many datasets, a plethora of serialization formats, and an abundance of idiosyncrasies such as syntax errors. As of late, very large-scale — hundreds of thousands of document, tens of billions of triples — access to RDF data has become possible thanks to the LOD Laundromat Web Service. ...

Winsor , Major Professor Albert Choi , Minor Professor

The Frank--Starling curve.

A basic property of the normal heart is that if its volume is increased, there is an increase in the strength of the contraction. The phenomenon is known as Starling's Law, and as the FrankStarling mechanism. This phenomenon is of great importance. If the heart were unable to increase its output when distended, the distension would become progressively severe. The underlying important relation ...