Informal notes for a series of lectures delivered 12–23 July 1999 at the Graduate Summer Workshop on Exterior Differential Systems at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. N.B.: This version of the notes has incorporated various minor corrections kindly pointed out to me by students and others up to the date of March 16, 2013. It is still incomplete, since I have not (ye...

Acknowledgements: Supported by grants from NINDS NS42722, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the EJLB-CIHR Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health, and the Canada Research Chair to M Zhuo. We would like to thank Drs. Stephen F. Heinemann for kindly providing GluR5 and GluR6 KO mice, John F. MacDonald and Geoffrey T. Swanson for providing GYKI 53655 and Michele J. Petrovi...

On the 8th April 1903, the Magistrate of Gaya, Mr. F. W. Duke, kindly sent for my examination a Hindu male infant .six weeks old, which had been brought to him as a curiosity. The child had what appeared to be a tail. I made the following note at the time : The spine is apparently perfectly normal. Over the base of the sacrum is a brawny swelling, from the lower portion of which emerges a perfe...

Abstract The ancient Greek city-states were slave societies, but the institutions of slavery differed across them. slaves democratic Athens foreigners bought as chattels labouring in agriculture, craftsmanship, banking, mining, and domestic services often given some limited freedoms extra pay. On contrary, helots, oligarchic Sparta, indigenous lands they cultivated for their masters treated har...

The Informer in collaboration with Springer-Verlag are pleased to announce the launch of the third annual competition for the best student paper in Information Retrieval. This is an open competition for any student in a European academic institution who has published a paper in a refereed journal/conference/workshop in the period 1st November 1998 1st November 1999. Springer-Verlag have kindly ...

In the above article the reference to Hering, E. (1878/1964) should be (1920/1964). Leo M. Hurvich has kindly pointed out to the author that ‘Outlines of a Theory of the Light Sense’ (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964, translated by Leo M. Hurvich and Dorothea Jameson), is based on Ewald Hering’s ‘Grundzuge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn’ (Berlin, Springer, 1920), and not, as has often been as...

Specialities (Syntex) Co. Inc., New York City, for corticosterone and hydrocortisone; and to Dr W. J. Tindall of Organon Laboratories Ltd. for deoxycorticosterone. Dr K. Hallas-M0ller ofthe Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium, Copenhagen, kindly gave us generous supplies of crystalline insulin free from glucagon. The technical assistance of Messrs S. C. Watson and B. W. E. Peaple is much appreciated,...

This English translation, made by a professional translator in close cooperation with the author and kindly proofread by Dr. Phil Larkin, follows the original text as closely as possible. However, though we thought it was wise to maintain the official (but not unproblematic) Dutch/Belgian definition of euthanasia in the original text (written for Belgian readers), the English texts offers a new...

type is designated DBAG (7), a spimidle cell, fast-growing tumor. Both types were derived from the mammary gland tissue of the inbred DBA strain of mice and were transplanted serially in parent hosts. The Novikoff hepa toma (11) and Novikoff ascites tumor cells (3) were kindly provided by Dr. Villaverdi and were transferred every 5 days into the peritoneal cavity of 150-gm female Sprague Dawley...