Abstract The introductory article in this issue argues for greater consideration of the impact Kosovo crisis on political developments other Yugoslav republics and entire federal state structure Yugoslavia after Tito’s death. It also calls a closer examination alternative paths that were considered by various actors to resolve conflict but not or could be pursued. Such discussion 1980s broader ...

Since the last decades, previous long-term Wadden Sea studies revealed significant changes in abundance, biomass and spatial distribution of characteristic macrofauna communities response to environmental anthropogenic stressors. In this study, we performed statistical community analysis for East-Frisian (EFWS, southern North Sea) on two reference datasets across a period with severe climatic (...

AI the first Convocation of the American College of Surgeons in 1913, President John M.T. Finney said in his Presidential Address : "The history of surgery in the United States and Canada is opened to a new page. When at some future time the historian comes to write 011 that page the record of events that have led up to this meeting, he will there record the taking of another step in the progre...

The advent of information technology and computers in medicine two decades ago posed a new set of ethical problems. In recent years, these problems have been compounded by the increasing use of computers for supporting clinical decisions as well as administration and record keeping. This presentation considers some of the problems which are raised by the use of computers to support clinical dec...

This paper summarizes some of the causes of, and some of the health and social concerns from, the growing illicit drug problem in the 1980s. It suggests that two recent developments, the decentralization of much drug production and modification to chemical laboratories in homes, and the application of increasingly innovative marketing techniques, have brought us to a new and more hazardous era ...