NORTHERN IRELAND secretary Mo Mowlam paid tribute last week to the way in which the province's mental health nurses have responded to the psychological needs of local people during the past 30 years.

s and letters 1. Johnson, D.H., Bourne, W.M., Campbell, R.J., 1981 Mar. Ultrastructure of Descemet’s membrane in Fuchs’ dystrophy. Investig. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 20, 114 (abstract 1). 2. Allen, R.C., Johnson, D.H., Epstein, D.L., 1982. A long-term clinical trial of betaxolol in glaucoma patients. Ophthalmology 89, 191. 3. Johnson, D.H., Richardson, T.M., Epstein, D.L., 1983. Trabecular meshwor...

This article provides an overview of the published research of John Gibbon. It describes his experimental research on scalar timing and his development of scalar timing theory. It also describes his methods of research which included mathematical analysis, conditioning methods, psychophysical methods and secondary data analysis. Finally, it describes his application of scalar timing theory to a...

This issue of Matrix Biology commemorates the memory of Dick Heinegård and his exceptional contributions to identify extracellular matrix molecules and their interactions that form cartilage matrices. This tribute to him demonstrates the development of his cartilage matrix model and how this model relates to the articles in this Matrix Biology Cartilage issue.

This special issue is dedicated to Professor Moshe Matalon on the occasion of his 70th birthday, as a tribute outstanding contributions Combustion Theory and Fluid Mechanics for l...

This article is a tribute to Milton Kant - quite possibly the last Founder of Professional Group on Radio Frequency Interference (the predecessor organization IEEE EMC Society) pass away.

Dave Randall was elected as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for his exceptional scientific contribution to the field of comparative physiology and, in celebration of this event, Adalberto Val, Vera Almeida-Val and Chris Wood organized a three-day mini-symposium, 'Frontiers in Tropical Aquatic Physiology: A Tribute to David Randall', on a boat in the Amazon to commemorate his lifet...

I was shocked to hear of Lennart’s recent, sudden, unexpected and tragic death. I knew him to have been ill, but had thought him to have recovered and to be well again. Perhaps it is because I was by training a psychiatrist, and therefore have knowledge of and empathy with the despair and hopelessness that leads to self destruction that I am particularly touched by his death and feel that in so...