INTRODUCTION When I was considering the compatibili ty of veterinary physiology and community development as a topic for an inaugural address, a skeptical colleague remarked that to marry a basic with an applied science was impossible. However, I was not convinced, because I believe that it is possible. In this address I will attempt to convince you, the audience, that the two are compatible an...

I give thanks to the Almighty God for His grace to be alive today and to deliver the 13 Inaugural Lecture of this University, rated and acclaimed the best amongst all the Universities in Nigeria. I am glad to be identified with the University at this point in time and, in particular to deliver a Lecture which will mark the first of a series of Inaugural Lectures in the term of Prof. I. F. Adu, ...

The manipulation of the rate of atomic transport along and across interfaces (most notably grain boundaries) remains a central theme in the control of the microstructure and properties of inorganic materials. This is known as the field of interfacial kinetic engineering (IKE). In his opening Sosman Memorial lecture in 1973, Professor Kingery proposed a set of plausible concepts that he consider...

The year of 2016 is eventful in many aspects. As President of ISA National, I was invited to many places nationally and internationally as Guest of Honour and in few places as Chief Guest and I am happy to say that Icould participate in many academic events. I was specially invited to Guangzhou in China for the annual Conference of Chinese Society of Anaesthesiologists in the capacity of Presid...

profession like that of medicine, and still more in such a Society as this, it is not meet that the purview be too circumscribed?too provincial. The mental horizon of the true scientific spirit is determined neither by size, distance, nor social conditions. To the scientific mind the infinitely minute bacterium is just as important as the gigantic elephant, a thing thousands of miles away as im...

Gentlemen,?Permit me to thank you most sincerely for allowingmethe privilege of presiding over your deliberations. It is indeed a high honour to be elected President of the Epidemiological Society, on whose roll are the names of able and distinguished men whose labours have indeed added much to our knowledge of disease. I cannot hope that it was any personal claim that induced the members of th...

retirement, to contribute to this Society, and so to the profession and the public, the matured results of much thoughtful observation and world-wide experience. During the twenty-three years I have enjoyed the privileges of Associate and office-bearer many changes have occurred in the composition of our Society, and also, to some extent, in its functions and scope of action. In 1862 the scienc...

as those of last year. It is not necessary to remind you of the many excellent papers we have had read before this Society. Our Transactions, which have just been published, indicate the growth and interest taken by the members of the Epidemiological Society?and, indeed, I may add outside it?by men not only belonging to the medical profession but by those who study sanitary science in its many ...