Professor Rudolf E. Kalman, formerly graduate research professor and director of the Center for Mathematical System Theory at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and the chair for Mathematical SystemTheory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland passed away peacefully in the morning of July 2, 2016, at his home in Gainesville, Florida. He was 86 y...

Artists-in-medicine at the University of New Mexico help nurses remember and renew the values that originally attracted them to the field of nursing. Exploring their nascent creativity through massage, yoga, art, music, and writing, nurses are encouraged to reconnect emotionally and spiritually with themselves, their patients, and fellow healthcare workers.

Romantic relationships can positively affect adolescent development. However, adolescents may not always have a clear understanding of what healthy dating looks like, which place some at risk for violence. The present study examined the following research questions: (1) What are adolescents’ perceptions and unhealthy attributes romantic relationships? (2) How do perceive jealousy potentially co...

This article is a qualitative study of the practice of leadership in Catholic schools in Australia. Within an interpretivist framework, a multiple case study of six lay principals was employed. Findings suggest that successful leadership in Catholic schools is highly infl uenced by the cultural and spiritual capital that a principal brings to a school, signifying a fundamental importance of app...

Few people outside the botanical world have probably heard of Ferdinand von Mueller, and it may therefore come as a surprise that he is rated important enough for a multi-volume "life and letters". For Australian historians of science, however, he is that country's outstanding nineteenth-century figure, who successfully overcame the handicaps of its geographical isolation to achieve a renown th...

Otto Loewi was born in Frankfurt in 1873, became professor of pharmacology in Graz in 1909 and laid the foundation of the theory of neurochemical transmission in 1920. For this he shared a Nobel prize with Dale in 1936, and in 1938, for being Jewish, he was briefly imprisoned and then expelled from Australia. He then emigrated to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Loewi wrot...