Sir Arthur C Clarke19172008

Dengue platelets meet Sir Arthur

Dengue is a viral disease spread by mosquitos. Although most commonly occurring in the tropics, there has been a worldwide increasing geographic expansion and the World Health Organization considers half the world at risk for infection (http://www. who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs117/en/). Severe dengue (previously known as dengue haemorrhagic fever) is relatively common (;500 000 cases each y...

Sir Arthur Macnalty, 1880–1969

Purkyn6's contribution to physiology. Relations of structure and function. Rise of experimental physiology and beginnings of physiological institutes. Further evolution of topics studied by Purkyne up to recent times. It is with great regret that we record the death of Sir Arthur MacNalty, at the age of 88, on 17 April 1969. Sir Arthur was for some years a member of this journal's Editorial Boa...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930.

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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 3, 543–558 (2005) © 2005 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20114 Manuscript received July 2004; review complete September 2004; revision complete October 2004; revision review complete Decembe...

Sir Arthur Newsholme and state medicine, 1885–1935

humane treatment, that will leave readers so disheartened. Optimism and conviction give way to despair and backtracking. Private madhouses, once excoriated by the public asylum "masters", are eventually but grudgingly endorsed. Medical treatments, avowedly eschewed in favour of moral treatment, are similarly embraced in time. The authors' cautionary tale of unbridled faith in institutionalizati...