Richard Doll was an epidemiologist and public figure in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Working primarily at the University of Oxford [2], in Oxford, England, Doll established a definitive correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Furthermore, Doll?s work helped legitimize epidemiology as a scientific discipline. Doll?s research also helped establish modern guidelin...

In 1921, Richard Bruynoghe and his student Joséph Maisin published on the first use of bacteriophages in a phage therapy context. At that time, Bruynoghe (a medical doctor) was affiliated as a professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium) for just over a decade, within the Bacteriological Institute which he founded and led. After a distinguished career (he was acting mayor of the city of Leuven-Belgium ...

1 Introduction 2 Advantages of using M. truncatula to study resistance to fungal necrotrophs 3 Fungal pathogens of M. truncatula 4 New pathogens and isolate validation 5 References 1 Introduction Fungal diseases in plants are almost exclusively members of the phylum Ascomycota and subphylum Pezizomycotina. All common crop plants are susceptible to fungal disease of one kind or another. Spore pr...

RICHARD MORTON, the first physician since Galen to envisage a concept of the unity of tuberculosis and the first physician ever to state that tubercles are always present in its pulmonary form, was born in the county of Suffolk and baptised on 30 July 1637 in the parish of Ribbesford, Worcestershire, where his father, Robert Morton, was minister of Bewdley Chapel from 1635 to 1646. Richard Mort...

This paper presents the New Systolic Language as a general solution to the problem systolic programming. The language provides a simple programming interface for systolic algorithms suitable for di erent hardware platforms and software simulators. The New Systolic Language hides the details and potential hazards of inter-processor communication, allowing data ow only via abstract systolic data ...

Objective To estimate the proportion of school age children with a persistent cough who have evidence of a recent Bordetella pertussis infection. Design Prospective cohort study (October 2001 to March 2005). Setting General practices in Oxfordshire, England. Participants 172 children aged 5-16 years who presented to their general practitioner with a cough lasting 14 days or more who consented t...

In this talk I will try to review some of the early experimrnts in the field of electron-proton scattering, concent.rnt,ing mostly on t,he inelastic scattering rxperimentn at SLAC. Ordinarily, t,hose experiments would be covered in the first. five or ten minutes of the talks by Professors Sruilli and Drrll, but (.his is a special yrar, and I will fwl free t.o rrminisce about the early days in a...