who were born or aged under five during the late 1840s. But this book is not satisfied with just examining food and famine, for it goes on to study the issue of nutrition, rightly observing that the nutritional value of diets is a major determinant of health. Here again much attention is devoted to the potato. This time Clarkson and Crawford explore the controversial issue of the relationship b...

congenital heart disease. Circulation 1993;87:1954–1959. 23. Ammash N, Warnes CA. Cerebrovascular events in adult patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;28:768–772. 24. Groenink M, Lohuis TAJ, Tijssen JPG, Naeff MSJ, Hennekam RCM, van der Wall EE, Mulder BJM. Survival and complication free survival in Marfan’s syndrome: implications of current guidelines. Heart ...

We introduce and study Clarkson, Dol’nikov-Pichugov, Jacobi and mutual diameter constants reflecting the geometry of a Banach space and Clarkson, Jacobi and Pichugov classes of Banach spaces and their relations with James, self-Jung, Kottman and Schäffer constants in order to establish quantitative versions of Hahn-Banach separability theorem and to characterise the isometric extendability of H...

About ten years ago, the eld of range searching, especially simplex range searching, was wide open. At that time, neither e cient algorithms nor nontrivial lower bounds were known for most range-searching problems. A series of papers by Haussler and Welzl [161], Clarkson [88, 89], and Clarkson and Shor [92] not only marked the beginning of a new chapter in geometric searching, but also revitali...

Tumor Differentiation Factor (TDF) is a protein produced by the pituitary and secreted into the blood stream. TDF targets breast and prostate and induces cell differentiation. However, the mechanism of cell differentiation, the TDF receptor and the TDF pathway have not been adequately investigated. Here, we provide some insights about the possible composition of the TDF-R. TDF-R may be a protei...

1 Past President Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Address of Correspondence: Dr John WD McDonald, 774 Promenade Echo Drive, Ottawa ON K1S 5N8, Canada. Introduction It is a great honour to be invited to deliver the Runme Shaw Memorial Lecture. I am grateful to the Runme Shaw Foundation for their support of this lecture. Mr Runme Shaw was by all accounts a most engaging man. To ...

T om Clarkson and Peter Schnatz are demonstrating that good research can be done in a community hospital. This article is the third in my series of interviews with the six mentor-mentee pairs in the inaugural 2009 class in The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Mentorship Program. Peter F. Schnatz, DO, is a graduate of Drew University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey....

Polynomial-phase signals have numerous applications including radar, sonar, geophysics, and radio communication. Many techniques for estimating the parameters of polynomial-phase signals have been described in the literature. Despite the significant interest, aliasing of polynomial-phase parameters has not been fully clarified. We address the problem of identifiability and aliasing in polynomia...

This paper presents a framework for calculating measures of data integrity for programs in a small imperative language. We develop a Markov chain semantics for our language which calculates Clarkson and Schneider’s definitions of data contamination and suppression. These definitions are based on conditional mutual information and entropy; we present a result relating them to mutual information,...