THE RESPIRATORY RATIO: A PRELIMINARY NOTE

A Preliminary Note on Spirochætosis

|/ (1). Introduction. "The Arab Caravan brings bugs." A fact crudely recognised by the inhabitants of the many countries through which Arab traders travel, would lead one to expect that their mother country should prove no exception to the rule. Arabia, however, is a land where ticks swarm alone along its low lying fringe. In the high lands these acarids abound only along the big caravan routes...

Sharpe Ratio Practice Note

Berberine in Malaria. A Preliminary Note

tj ^Kopra (1933) has pointed out that berbenne, .^J^active principle of berberine-containing plants, has some remarkable properties in its behaviour towards the parasites of malaria. Its sulphate has been found to liberate the parasites into the peripheral circulation from the internal organs, so that, whereas blood films taken before the administration of berberine are negative, those taken af...

A note on the sex ratio in anencephalus.

While exploring the association of the sex ratio of stillbirths with cause and duration of gestation, McKeown and Lowe (1951) noted that for anencephalus sex ratio increased with duration of gestation. No explanation was offered for this observation, which is here considered briefly. In Birmingham, during the years 1940-51, 454 stillbirths and 28 infant deaths were attributed to anencephalus (4...

On the Popularity of GitHub Applications: A Preliminary Note

GitHub is the world’s largest collection of open source software. Therefore, it is important both to software developers and users to compare and track the popularity of GitHub repositories. In this paper, we propose a framework to assess the popularity of GitHub software. We also propose a set of popularity growth patterns, which describe the evolution of the number of stars of a system over t...