Rufus Howard, MD

Coping with the ethical conundra of forensic psychiatry: a tribute to Howard Zonana, MD.

As part of the Festschrift in honor of Howard Zonana, MD, this article reviews two important concerns that emerged in the ethics of forensic psychiatry in the resolution of which he played critical roles. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the question arose of what role, if any, was proper for psychiatrists to play with regard to evaluations of competence to be executed and treatment of incomp...

Rufus Cole, 1913

Joe Howard

Joe Howard is a Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has always been on the move. In his native Australia he did his PhD on the neurobiology of vision; in San Francisco he worked on hair cells and hearing; and in Seattle he developed single-molecule techniques to study microtubules and kinesins. He wrote a textbook on the Me...

Howard Berg

to test whether termites of the Cryptotermes domesticus species might be able to discriminate between different sizes of wood. The team constructed experiments that presented termites with blocks of wood with a standard crosssectional diameter of 20x20 mm but of either 20 mm or 160 mm length. The insects were placed in a gap between the two faces of the timber blocks so that they were not able ...

2496 Howard

Several microcomputer-controlled analytical instruments are described that illustrate certain automation concepts, focus attention on some recent developments, and help us to envisage what might be introduced during the 1980's. New types of stop-flow analyzers are shown to have considerable promise for routine and investigative kinetic and equilibrium analytical/clinical methods. Throughputs of...