Traumatic memory of Martyrs' Sons

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

Heroes & Martyrs of Quality and Safety

WASTE NOT William Edwards Deming, the first child of William Albert Deming and Pluma Irene Edwards, was born on 14 October 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. His father worked mainly in freelance legal work and his mother gave music lessons on their grand Kimball piano. As a child, Deming grew up in meagre conditions. He and his family lived for years in a tarpaper shack. As a boy he worked at a hotel f...

The Greenock medical martyrs of 1864-65.

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...

Cognitive Patterns of Coma Patients Induced by Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Working Memory

Background and Aim: Coma caused by severe traumatic brain injury, leads to cognitive function disorder, the most frequently affects being on the working memory. Because of the importance and direct impact of working memory on the quality of human life, especially in military skills that require active memory and high attentional power; the present study aimed to investigate the cognitive patter...

The Demand for Sons

Do parents have preferences over the gender of their children, and if so, does this have negative consequences for daughters versus sons? In this paper, we show that child gender affects the marital status, family structure, and fertility of a significant number of American families. Overall, a first-born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father compared to a first-bor...