Yes, Beloved friends, as promised and declared well in advance; IAP is privileged to host the 1 st Pneumonia congress on 17 th and 18 th November to celebrate the auspicious World Pneumonia Day. IAP showcased the Govt., WHO, UNICEF and other key national and international NGOs that IAP indeed is concerned and bothered about high U5 mortality in India; particularly due to number 1 cause i.e. Pne...

We present temporal milestones for hierarchical task networks to enable the complex synchronization of tasks. A temporal milestone of a task is an intermediate event that occurs during the execution of a complex task, e.g., the start time, the end time or a milestone of any of its subtasks. Unlike landmark variables, introduced in existing work, temporal milestones respect the task abstraction ...

Sometimes a different perspective helps. This summer our College of Family Physicians of Canada executive met with our counterparts from the American Academy of Family Physicians. When our American colleagues heard that 31% of Canadian medical students made family medicine their first choice in the Canadian Resident Matching Service match,1 they told us that they could only dream of such a larg...

This special issue of Soil Science celebrates the enormous accomplishments made during the past century or more in the field of soil science, including some of the key articles published in Soil Science during its 90 years of existence. In this article, we focus on the contributions in soil physics, exemplified by the articles of Willard Gardner (1919) and John Philip (1957c), both of which are...

The last 25 years have seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the genetic etiologies of dystonia, new approaches into dissecting underlying pathophysiology, and independent progress in identifying effective treatments. In this review we highlight some of these advances, especially the genetic findings that have taken us from phenomenological to molecular-based diagnoses. Twenty DYT lo...

Vinton Cerf in Communications of the ACM 07/2015, 7 calls for setting anniversary milestones for Computing Future similar to the Hilbert program. At the end of 19 century mathematicians started doubting whether or not some of the problems they were working on for long time do or do not have solutions. At the 1900 International Conference on Mathematics held in Paris, Hilbert proposed 23 unsolve...

An array of pioneering research, dealing with various aspects of soil chemistry, has appeared in Soil Science for the past 90 years. In this review, two papers that have shaped the field forever are featured and discussed. The paper by Mattson (1931) and the many others that he published in Soil Science established the importance of variable or pHdependent surface charge on colloids and soils a...

Tremor is one of the most frequent movement disorders and covers a wide spectrum of entities summarized in the 1998 consensus statement of the Movement Disorder Society. Essential tremor and Parkinson tremor are most common and are also the most thoroughly studied. Major progress has occurred in the clinical semiology, neuroimaging, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of tremors. Pathology and ge...

This timeline presents a view of the successive advancement of the field of ecology, first through earlier developments that provided a foundation for the field and then through developments within the formal discipline of ecology itself, from the late 1800s onward. The timeline concludes with a cutoff date in the late twentieth century, based on the principle that contemporary developments nee...

to the splendid Lawrence Reynolds Historical Library in the Birmingham Medical Centre and the cordiality of its custodian, Mrs. Martha Lou Thomas. This volume traces the life of Osler through this refreshing and friendly correspondence. The first letter, when Osler was fifteen years of age, is dated 10 January 1865. It was written from Dundas to Milburn at Oakville because the Christmas vacatio...