Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

Ham Green Hospital, Bristol from 1948 to 1976 died on 5th February 1987 aged 75 years. He was born on 24th February 1911 at Kyle of Locha'5. and educated at Dingwall Academy and Glasgow versity where he qualified in 1934. During the following years he held junior hospital posts in virtually everV medical and surgical speciality and in 1939 appointed Deputy Medical Superintendant of Lana^ shire ...

By the death of Mr. James Furness Marson, F.R.C.S., on the 17th of November 1877, the Society lost one of its oldest and most honoured members. Mr. Marson had been long a member of the Council, and more than once the Presidency of the Society was offered to him, but each time he had felt it necessary to decline the offer, in consequence of a painful malady to which he had become liable, and whi...

James Croll (1821–90) occupies a prominent position in the history of physical geology, and his pioneering work on the causes of long-term climate change has been widely discussed. During his life he benefited from the patronage of leading men of science; his participation in scientific debates was widely acknowledged, not least through his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876. For...

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SUMMARY We study cubical sets without degeneracies, which we call {sets. These sets arise naturally in a number of settings and there is a beautiful geometry associated with them; in particular a {set C has an innnite family of associated {sets J i (C), i = 1; 2; : : :, which we call James complexes. There are projections p i : jJ i (C)j ! jCj which are mock bundle projections. These deene clas...

James Alexander Thomson [4], affectionately known as Jamie Thomson [4], is an American developmental biologist whose pioneering work in isolating and culturing non-human primate [5] and human embryonic stem cells [6] has made him one of the most prominent scientists in stem cell research. While growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Thomson?s rocket-scientist uncle inspired him to pursue science as ...

a Department of Radiation Oncology, James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York b Division of Hematology/Oncology, James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York c Department of Neurology, James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York d Department of Neurosurgery, James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute...

Many empirical studies related to CBAs focused on interactive assessments in general (e.g., Leung & Mohan, 2004; Hamp-Lyons Tavares, 2011), or dynamic Lantolf Poehner, 2011; Poehner Compernolle, 2011) and peer-assessments Aryadoust, 2015; Cheng Warren, 2005) particular. Few have spontaneous embedded teacher instruction mediated through interaction using the LOA approach Purpura et al., 2016...