Witold S. Sworakowski, 1903-1979

Chapter 2 . 1979 - 83 : Weak Agency and Labour ’ s

The period from 1979 to 1983 represented, in more ways than one, a nadir for the Labour Party. The 1974-9 government was brought down on a vote of no confidence following a winter of industrial action. Many felt that Callaghan should have called the election in late 1978, when Labour’s electoral prospects seemed better, and in hindsight it appears difficult to disagree. Nonetheless, on May 3, 1...

Was the serine protease cathepsin G discovered by S. G. Hedin in 1903 in bovine spleen?

In the beginning of the 20th century, enzymes with proteolytic activity were classified as peptidases, Erepsin, and proteases. Among these, pepsin, trypsin, and autolytic enzymes were of the protease class. Spleen-derived proteases were poorly characterized until Sven Gustaf Hedin performed several digestion experiments with bovine spleen. He incubated minced bovine spleen under acidic or neutr...

GI - Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics Witold Abramowicz , Leszek Maciaszek

One challenge that organizations face nowadays is to agilely react to changes in their business, adapting their business processes and technologies to new possibilities. To do so, organizations must be capable of separating the definition of their business processes from their technical implementation, which most are currently streaky. Applying the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) and Business ...

John von Neumann 1903 - 1957

If influence of a scientist is interpreted broadly enough to include impact on fields beyond science proper then John von Neumann was probably the most influential mathematician ever lived: not only did he contribute to almost all branches of modern mathematics and created new fields but he also changed history after the second World War by his work in computer design and by being a sought-afte...

Dr . John F . Burger Roosevelt ’ s 1903 Visit A Ride to the Infernal Regions