The mental decline of King Henry VIII from being a jovial, charismatic and athletic young man into an increasingly paranoid, brutal tyrant in later life, ever more concerned at his lack of one or more male heirs, has attracted many medical diagnostic theories. Previous hypotheses have included diabetes, syphilis and hypothyroidism, among others. However, these inadequately explain Henry's failu...

Two types of stainless steel microstructured reactors for catalytic gas-phase reactions have been developed and characterized with respect to heir thermal behaviour under non-stationary temperature conditions. One of the reactors used (FTC-I) allowed periodic temperature changes up to 00 K with a frequency of 0.05 Hz. However, a broad temperature gradient of 80 K developed inside the reactor. A...

E ngineering students in '.:heir senior year are anxious to translate theory into application. Most engineering curricula require a design course that accords senior students this practical experience, and design course faculty strive to offer a variety of projects to their students. Most of these projects, however, are not directly related to human needs; therefore, suggestions for projects th...

By ATHmNm os .1. PHILIPPU D URING RECENT YEARS mamsy papers have beemi pul)lishied dealing with the separatiomi of leimkocytes froni the other 1)lood cells. Most of them refer to the separatiomi of the leukocyt-es as a whole, while others deal with the separation of t heir differemit morphologic forms. The methods most iui use for the separatiomi of the differemit morphologic fonmns of blood le...

This article uses Bourdieu’s analysis of peasant life in the Bearn to illuminate a changing but resilient rural culture in mid-twentieth century Wales. Rather than finding their culture and language eroded by economic and social change, Welsh speaking participants in this biographical study used the education system to build upon their existing cultural capital previously cultivated through rel...

bstract. Image thresholding is a very common image processing peration, since almost all image processing schemes need some ort of separation of the pixels into different classes. In order to etermine the thresholds, most methods analyze the histogram of he image. The optimal thresholds are often found by either minimizng or maximizing an objective function with respect to the values of he thre...

This research was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a distraction technique in reducing young children’s negative responses to dental care. Fifty-five dentally naive children, ranging in age from two to six years, were studied over a sedes of four dental visits. Patients in the distraction condition viewed familiar ch3"ldren’s television programs throughout heir dental visits; patients...

n this issue of the Journal, Hoffmann et al. (1) report on heir comparison of conventional and contrast-enhanced chocardiography, biplane cine angiography, and cardiac agnetic resonance for the detection of regional wall otion abnormalities. Their effort to acquire three or four f these modalities in the same patients creates an opporunity to consider the relative utility of these tests in a gr...

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...

bstract. This paper presents an efficient technique for linking dge points in order to generate a closed-contour representation. It s based on the consecutive use of global and local schemes. In oth cases it is assumed that the original intensity image, as well as ts corresponding edge map, are given as inputs to the algorithm. he global scheme computes an initial representation by connecting d...