Book Review: Pharmacology by Rang HP, Dale MM, Ritter JM and Moore PK. Fifth edition Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2003

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Peer Review and Churchill

I’ve written a large number of articles over the last forty years, but rather few research papers going through the peer review or refereeing process. One of them came to mind when I read a paper we’re publishing in the current issue, by Claudiu Heteliu and others, on possible ‘coercive citation’—if that’s an unfamiliar expression [1], it will become clear soon... One of the reviewers of my pap...

Gastrointestinal Physiology, Fifth Edition

The material is substantial, informative and complete with explanations of the physiology underlying nutrition, but still maintains readability appropriate for the general public. In addition, there is a summary and resource section at the end of each chapter to help guide those who wish to read more about a given topic, as well as useful appendices with growth charts, recommended daily allowan...

Book Review | New Books September 2003

Background: In class prediction problems using microarray data, gene selection is essential to improve the prediction accuracy and to identify potential marker genes for a disease. Among numerous existing methods for gene selection, support vector machine-based recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) has become one of the leading methods and is being widely used. The SVM-based approach performs...

Uncertainty Theory Fifth Edition

Psychological Sketches ( Fifth Edition )