The White Horse, 1950

Digital Rights Management: White Knight or Trojan Horse?

Due to its ability to solve all main problems associated with digital goods, Digital Right Management is the favourite option used by companies to tackle piracy. The aim of this article is to discuss the consequences of DRM for consumers, firms and society. The rationales of DRM are discussed and the expected benefits for firms are presented. It is shown that the advantages brought by DRM to fi...

Black women in white: racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890–1950

Randy Shilts has noted (And the bandplayed on, p. 596), by the time President Reagan delivered his first speech on the epidemic, "36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with the disease; 20,849 had died". Some of the essays in the book do attempt to explain aspects of this extraordinary moral climate. Paula A. Treichler's piece on 'AIDS, gender and bio-medical discourse' is powerfully argued, and ...

Examining alcohol's contribution to the US African-American/White cirrhosis mortality differential from 1950 to 2002.

AIMS The aim of this study was to estimate the overall impact of alcohol on US race- and sex-specific age-adjusted cirrhosis mortality rates and to consider beverage-specific effects that represent changes in drinking patterns over time, comparing states with large and small African-American/White cirrhosis mortality differentials. METHODS Using series data from 1950 to 2002, the effects of p...

The Medical Annual, 1950

HORSE SPECIES SYMPOSIUM: Exercise physiology of the horse.

Research in human and rodents has shown an age-associated decline in physical function, aerobic capacity and skeletal muscle mitochondrial function, which in humans begins around the age of 50 yr. On the other hand, many horses can still actively work or compete beyond 20 yr of age, an age equivalent to a 65-year-old human. The purpose of the present study was to determine the age-related chang...