Saint John's wort not so saint

Fugitive Saint

Angela Verne. (Catholic Printing Company, Farnwort'1' Bolton, Lanes. 18s.) "According to legend, she (St. Dymphna) fled from Ireland to Gheel with the priest Gonerbernus to escape the unholy desire of her own father, a pagan kl0fc of Ireland. The latter, however, discovered their whereabouts and put them ^ death." These stark sentences, which embody all that is known of the patron sain of the f...

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports

Ludovic Saint - Bauzel

1Department of Human and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan 2Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Mapoku, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea 4 Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Univ...

Percolation since Saint-flour

There has been a great deal of interest and activity in percolation theory since the two Saint-Flour courses, [76, 111], of 1984 and 1996 reprinted in this new edition. We present here a summary of progress since the first publications of our lecture notes. The second edition of Percolation, [77], was published in 1999 as a fairly complete, contemporary account of ‘classical’ percolation (but w...

On Saint Venant's Principle

The so-called principle of statically equivalent loads, due to Saint Venant, has been referred to for the last fifty years in almost all texts on elasticity. The statements in different books vary only slightly. Let us quote A. E. H. Love's Treatise on the mathematical theory of elasticity (4th éd., p. 132) : "According to this principle the strains that are produced in a body by the applicatio...