Dr Renate Burgess, Keeper of Art Collections at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine from 1964 to 1980, died in London on 15 August 1988. Renate Ruth Adelheid Burgess was born in Hanover on 2 August 1910. Her parents came from Silesia. Her father was Dr. phil. Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949), a chemist who won the Nobel Prize (with Carl Bosch) in 1931 for his inventions in the field...

The Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem network (SUAN) has used five system properties to assess agroecosystem performance: productivity, stability, sustainability, equitability and autonomy. Assessing these properties can be useful for agricultural research and development, but the assessment is complicated by several factors. First is the multidimensional character of these properties,...

AIM To report national data on dental caries in Danish children and adolescents from 1988 to 2001. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study. METHODS Data on dental caries for 5, 7, 12 and 15 year old individuals reported from 1988 to 2001 to the database established by the Danish National Board of Health. RESULTS Caries has decreased in all four age groups, but the d...

This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley. The basic aim is to introduce the DAP and to summarize its results, especially as these were compiled in the final “capstone” meeting of the DAP, and drawin...

Tn 1989 my then scientific autobiography (Luce, 1989) concluded: "At that point [early 19881 T did take early retirement from Harvard, but the next five to ten years promise not t o be idle." These few pages take up the ensuing seven years, which indeed have not been idle. (Perhaps the problem is that l've never taken up golf.) For example, 32 papers have appeared in journals and book chapters,...