Anthony Daffy's Elixir Account Book offers a unique insight into the medical economy of the later seventeenth century. It records sales beyond London in the 1670s and 1680s of Daffy's "Elixir Salutis", or simply Daffy's Elixir as it was better known, a medicine that continued to be manufactured and widely used into the twentieth century in England, America and various European countries.' Daffy...

Background: There is an information gap in literature regarding postoperative outcome of total knee arthroplasty (TKA)in patients with hardware in-situ from the previous knee surgery. The present study aims to evaluate impact of retainedhardware on short-term outcome of TKA patients.Methods: Perioperative radiographs of patients who had undergone TKA between 2007 and 2012 were reviewedand patie...

The continuous friction for more than two centuries in softwood lumber trade between Canada and the United States only keeps escalating. The reason for the prolonged battle in the softwood lumber trade is the huge economic value of the bilateral lumber trade, the size of the lumber markets in both countries, and the adverse impact of one country’s policies on the other country’s lumber market. ...

Background:  Little is known about trends and predictors of hardware related infection following open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of extremity fractures, one of the major causes of failure following ORIF. The present study was designed and conducted to determine trends and predictors of infection-related hardware removal following ORIF of extremities using a nationally representative...

Commercial-off-the-shelf operating systems (COTS OSs) increasingly favor adaptability to support diverse application and hardware peripherals in detriment to targeting robustness of OS services. The COTS OSs interface to hardware devices is provided by the device-drivers1. Furthermore, drivers have themselves become add-on COTS components, enhancing OS’s adaptability. Unfortunately, drivers con...

Whilst E-Commerce is spreading world-wide, many Muslims are wondering whether this new form of commerce is acceptable from the Syariah (Islamic Law) point of view. Thus, this research paper is meant to study the Islamic perspectives in e-commerce, particularly in its transaction, as well as the rights of the producers and customers. Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to ...

Book review of Snapshots from hell by Peter Robinson. Published by Warner Books (New York), 1994. Comments Postprint version. Published in Journal of Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 1995, pages 101-106. The author has asserted his/her right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This other is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://...

Whilst E-Commerce is spreading world-wide, many Muslims are wondering whether this new form of commerce is acceptable from the Syariah (Islamic Law) point of view. Thus, this research paper is meant to study the Islamic perspectives in e-commerce, particularly in its transaction, as well as the rights of the producers and customers. Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to ...

The end of Dennard scaling is forcing innovation in computing architectures; the old regime, where exponential benefits accrued by using a newer process technology, no longer holds. One path of innovation is to exploit heterogeneous platforms, and match applications to the platforms on which they execute efficiently. Heterogeneous processing in the server domain is a big hardware/software desig...