Rourkela (Deemed University) is an authentic work carried out by him under my supervision and guidance. To the best of my knowledge, the matter embodied in the thesis has not been submitted to any other University/Institute for the award of any Degree or Diploma. 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Its not to often one gets the chance to thank people for their influence on your life, show appreciation for their ...

T was a gray Baltimore morning in April 1942 when I first met George Rosen in the Johns Hopkins Institute. We 'clicked' immediately. Being both devotees of medical history we talked for hours almost exclusively about our adored subject; strangely enough neither about our careers (as it behooves colleagues) nor about world politics, though at that moment it breathed heavily down all our necks. I...

I can still remember that early morning in May. I had picked up Susan Bonner-Weir, who had come to Uppsala to give the Kroc lecture of the year. We went to the neuropsychiatric ward at Ulleråker Hospital, where Claes Hellerstr€ om had spent the last couple of weeks after his devastating stroke four months earlier. I had learnt to interpret his body language in the sense that it was easy to unde...

BACKGROUND Herbal medicine has long been viewed as a valuable asset for potential new drug discovery and herbal ingredients' metabolites, especially the in vivo metabolites were often found to gain better pharmacological, pharmacokinetic and even better safety profiles compared to their parent compounds. However, these herbal metabolite information is still scattered and waiting to be collected...

The 19th of March 1998 was an important date for at least two reasons. The first one was personal. The second one was that Jean-Pierre Jouannaud agreed to supervise my master thesis on " extending the Calculus of Constructions with a new version of the General Schema " which he had roughed out with Mitsuhiro Okada. This did not mean much to me then. However, I was very happy with the idea of st...

I would like to begin by thanking the Melbourne Business School for organising this conference. For far too long, discussions about payment systems typically took place behind closed doors and were largely the preserve of specialists in fi nancial institutions. As this conference shows us, this is no longer the case, with payment systems posing challenging issues not just for the specialists, b...

As frequent readers of this part of the Bulletin may have already noticed, from this volume I have taken over the job of editing the concurrency column. On behalf of the whole concurrency community, I take this opportunity for thanking my predecessor, Mogens Nielsen, for his superb editorial work over the years. In order to follow on Mogens’ footsteps I need the assistance of the concurrency co...