The Latham Report (1995) identified a need for greater teamwork within the UK construction industry. The Egan Report (1998) took this principle further and in particular posed a series of challenging targets for the UK house building industry. These targets were focused around greater use of innovative techniques derived from manufacturing, and included the increased use of standardisation, pre...

It is a pleasure and honor for me to give the 26th Annual Donald F Egan Scientific Lecture at the American Association for Respiratory Care. Much of my research career has focused on weaning from mechanical ventilation, and a major stimulus for my interest in this subject was an outstanding review article published in RESPIRATORY CARE by its current editor, Dave Pierson, in the early 1980s.1 In...

In 1913, Albert Salomon, a German surgeon, published his monograph about the utility of radiological studies of mastectomy specimens, demonstrating the possibility of correlating radiological, macro and microscopic anatomy of breast diseases with differentiation between benign and malignant entities. Major works followed that of A.Salomon, namely, Kleinschmidt, Warren, Vogel, Seabold, Gerson-Co...

Abstract As for the typical representatives of wide bandgap semiconductors, eGaN FETs (Enhancement Mode High Electron Mobility Transistors) are most commonly used envelope tracking, wireless power supply, automatic pilot, defence industry, etc. This paper compares characteristics different semiconductor materials and analyzes performance advantages GaN-based materials. On basis device structure...

Cystic fibrosis, a progressive and ultimately fatal inherited disorder caused by a mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ( CFTR ) gene, has mobilized the government, charitable foundations, the biotechnology industry, and academia to work together to accelerate the development of drugs to combat the disease. The tools of molecular biology have facilitated the entry of about...

In vivo compartmental analysis of leukocytes in mouse lungs 1 2 Brijesh V Patel, Kate C Tatham, Michael R Wilson, Kieran P O’Dea, and Masao Takata 3 4 1 Section of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial 5 College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 6 7 Running Head: Compartmental analysis of mouse lungs 8 9 Address corresponde...

An alleged counterexample to causal decision theory, put forward by Andy Egan, is studied in some detail. It is argued that Egan rejects the evaluation of causal decision theory on the basis of a description of the decision situation that is different from – indeed inconsistent with – the description on which causal decision makes its evaluation. So the example is not a counterexample to causal...