The Cottage Emigrant's Fare-Well

Fare well, Human Reproduction.

Bob Edwards and Jean Cohen, the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), wanted to create a journal for their newly founded scientific society on a par with Fertility and Sterility, the well-established journal of the American Fertility Society (now ASRM). So Human Reproduction (HR) started in 1986 with Bob Edwards, the first editor. He was instru...

Do elderly patients fare well in the ICU?

BACKGROUND A recent update of the Mortality Probability Model (MPM)-III found 14% of intensive care patients had age as their only MPM risk factor for hospital mortality. This subgroup had a low mortality rate (2% vs 14% overall), and pronounced differences were noted among elderly patients. This article is an expanded analysis of age-related mortality rates in patients in the ICU. METHODS Pr...

The Magic Cottage:

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the impact of using a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) on enhancing creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The intervention was to present the pupils with an interactive 3D environment, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, that provided the setting in which their stories could take place. Numerous interactive feat...

Will krill fare well under Southern Ocean acidification?

Antarctic krill embryos and larvae were experimentally exposed to 380 (control), 1000 and 2000 µatm pCO₂ in order to assess the possible impact of ocean acidification on early development of krill. No significant effects were detected on embryonic development or larval behaviour at 1000 µatm pCO₂; however, at 2000 µatm pCO₂ development was disrupted before gastrulation in 90 per cent of embryos...

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