The King-Armstrong method.

The King-Armstrong method.

message was that those who use a KingArmstrongmethod should standardize it by the manual method of King and Wootton (1956). Although most clinical chemists in the United Kingdom still use either a manual or mechanized King-Armstrong method, little help was offered to the increasing numbers of clinical chemists using either ,B-glycerophosphate or pnitrophenol phosphate as substrate. The relative...

King-Armstrong Phosphatase Estimation by the Determination of Liberated Phosphate.

As a result of many requests for a phosphatase method which would use the phenyl phosphate substrate of King and Armstrong (1934), but which would substitute a determination of the liberated inorganic phosphate for that of phenol, we have developed two procedures which are described in this paper. The principal reason for a method in which the final measurement is of inorganic phosphate is that...

Armstrong lecture 2005: if I were king of pediatrics.

Armstrong ’ s Axioms 1

We present a formalization of the seminal paper by W. W. Armstrong [1] on functional dependencies in relational data bases. The paper is formalized in its entirety including examples and applications. The formalization was done with a routine effort albeit some new notions were defined which simplified formulation of some theorems and proofs. The definitive reference to the theory of relational...

In Memoriam: Susan Armstrong

Susan Armstrong worked as Professor of Translation Technology at the University of Geneva until her retirement in 2014. She served as secretary to the European chapter of the ACL from 1993–2000, remaining on the chapter’s nominating committee until 2004. She had a fundamental role in the founding and successful development of SIGDAT. Susan arrived in Switzerland from the United States in 1978 t...