In 1973, in his foreword for de Finetti’s book “Theory of Probability, A critical introductory treatment”, Professor Lindley wrote that “(. . . ) every now and again delightful ideas spring to view; the idea that we shall all be Bayesian by 2020 (. . . ). But, as I said, this is a book about life” (Finetti, 1974, ix). The two strains of idea, that we should all use probability to approach uncer...

ghasem amin is known as a harbinger of women’s social and cultural rights in the world of arabs. primarily, he centered his ideas on three axes: a; women’s education to the primary level, b; necessity of women’s free will and decision making in issues like marriage, c; religious veil (covering all the body except the face and the two palms); although the outcomes of his ideas require more discu...

The need for the historian or social scientist to think carefully about how he or she arranges material was authoritatively described by the historian and philosopher R.G.Collingwood. In his Autobiography (p.81) he wrote:” I had learnt by first-hand experience that history is not an affair of scissors and paste, but is much more like Bacon's notion of science. This historian has to decide exact...

Doctor James Deeny, whose autobiography this book is, died on 3rd April 1994, aged 87. A distinguished graduate of the Belfast Medical School, he was born into general practice in Lurgan, County Armagh, where his father practised, and where he was to practise himself for thirteen years. To his practice he brought extraordinary gifts of intellect, observation and heart. In the conditions of thos...

BACKGROUND Abraham Groves worked as a general practitioner and surgeon in the small town of Fergus, Ontario, Canada. Several priority claims have been attributed to Groves' life in surgery, including aseptic surgery (1874), appendectomy (1883) and the use of surgical gloves (1885). He was also an early practitioner of urological surgery. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to describe and ...

263 school and research hospital libraries. It would be an excellent resource which I can unequivocally recommend for inclusion in specialty libraries dealing with im-munology, infectious diseases, and cellular biochemistry and physiology. Lewis Thomas' latest book is an autobiography that erases the boundaries separating medicine, microbes, and man, and uses metaphors from each of these fields...

This paper aims to analyze the influence of systemic racism on quarter-life crisis, experienced by Malcolm X, as seen in The Autobiography X (As Told Alex Haley). Its emphasis is find relation between racial segregation American society and its which a psychological crisis uncertainty, self-insecurity identity confusion, occurs during emerging adulthood. Therefore, applying qualitative method, ...

narrative style is the main feature of mehdi akhavan sales (1928-1990), one of the famous contemporary persian poets. but what gives a special prominence to his narrative poems and makes it distinct from the works of other contemporary poets is his idiosyncratic use of narrative techniques and methods. he employed in his works the element of narration in a distinctive manner. although, the narr...