As these two volumes amply testify, George Rousseau has become, at a remarkably early age, the doyen of scholars illuminating the elective affinities between literature and medicine (and long may he so continue!). His range of interests, expertise, and panache ripple off the pages of his volume of reprinted Smollett essays, where learned discussions about the impact on embryology of the introdu...

The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 PrescriPtion drugs play a central role in managing chronic illness and other health problems facing the elderly. until recently, however, Medicare provided no insurance for most outpatient prescription drugs. Many elderly Americans, facing large out-of-pocket drug costs, failed to obtain the medicines needed to treat m...

Chenistry of Carcinogenic Compounds The first of the eighteen articles, which is by Haddow and Kon, on the chemistry of carcinogenic compounds1 begins with Percival Pott (1775) and leads the history of the subject via Yamagiwa to Kennaway's work on synthetic tars (Kennaway, 1924, 1925; Kennaway and Hieger,. 1930) and his discoveryt of the first cancer producing hydrocarbon, I: 2: 5: 6-dibenzant...

An inventory of the bembicine wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Bembicinae: Bembicini, except Gorytina) found in Rio de Janeiro State is provided, based on the revision of the literature and on the examination of the entomological collections of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (CEIOC) and Museu Nacional – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ). Original biological notes on Rubrica nasuta (Chri...

Morphological identification of the majority Zygaenidae species in Eastern Mediterranean Region Turkey was undertaken and a phylogenetic tree these generated. Sampling performed between May September 2017 2018 Adana, Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Mersin Osmaniye Provinces. This area is zoogeographical junction central Anatolia Levant. The were collected by sweep net visual control methods. Thirteen ide...

This paper extends the recent investigation of Tahvonen and Withagen (1996, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 20, 1775}1795) for costly and thus sluggish instead of instantaneous reductions in emissions. In addition to the social optimum, the paper investigates the competitive equilibrium. This plausible extension allows to derive limit cycles as the outcome for both, the social optimum ...

Aberration [828]. Aborigine [1221]. Abortion [1775]. Absolute [1956, 1764]. Acceleration [411]. Accelerator [360, 1284]. Accelerators [1727]. Acetabularia [1354]. Acid [578, 1200]. Acids [740, 855]. Acoustic [1023]. Acoustical [1924]. Acoustics [759]. ACTH [685]. Action [447]. Activation [1433]. Acute [1938]. Adaptations [1190]. Add [1731]. Addiction [823]. Adhesives [447]. Adjustable [1618]. A...

Depression is commonly present in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and is independently associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Screening tests for depressive symptoms should be applied to identify patients who may require further assessment and treatment. This multispecialty consensus document reviews the evidence linking depression with CHD and provides rec...

BACKGROUND Anisopodidae (window gnats or wood gnats) is a small family of nematocerous Diptera. Until now only Sylvicola (Anisopus) punctatus (Fabricius, 1787) and Sylvicola (Sylvicola) fenestralis (Scopoli, 1763)​ were reported from Romania. NEW INFORMATION New faunistic records of Sylvicola (Diptera: Anisopodidae) are presented. Sylvicola (Sylvicola) cinctus (Fabricius, 1787) and S. (Anisop...