An excellent little book of some 70 pages containing all a diabetic patient should know about the dietetic treatment of his disease. A special feature is a collection of set menus and recipes classified according to the patient's tolerance. A table of the carbohydrate values of comjmon foods is also included and should prove useful. This little book should prove useful not only to the patient b...

potency, induction, competence, and regulation were widely used as categories ofexplanation in this period. Now, when we have the technical means to investigate the inner workings of cells, this heritage is available not as a set of explanations but as a set of problems requiring solution. Probably no one did more in this vital task than Johannes Holtfreter, who receives extensive coverage in t...

A fuller account of the scientific experiments involving particle radiation and linen cloth that explains the medieval dating of the Shroud along with all the known chemical and molecular effects of the Shroud’s body image can be found on the proposal on my website www.resurrectionoftheshroud.com/Information/proposal11.html These scientific experiments along with numerous other scientific, medi...

ized as an entailment mesh, in which key concepts and propositions (circles) are connected to each other by relationships (arrows). This provides readers with a comprehensive, yet compendious, overview of the territory being mapped. The third section comprises an alphabetical listing of each of the concepts or propositions—that is, “agreements”—that appears in the diagram. In this listing of ag...

the other children came to regard as arranged solely in his honour. Just as Osler in his lifetime, whether in Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Oxford, was the teacher, friend, and fellow-student to every earnest seeker after truth in medicine, so to many of my and later generations who were brought up on his original textbook , who have read his monographs, and who have studied and pondered...

Ernst Zermelo is familiar to mathematicians as the creator of the controversial Axiom of Choice in 1904 and the theorem, based on the Axiom of Choice, that every set can be well ordered. Many will be aware that in 1908 he axiomatized set theory—in a form later modified by Abraham Fraenkel (1922) and then by Zermelo himself (1930). Some will know of Zermelo’s conflict with Ludwig Boltzmann over ...

in his paper mentioned in the title, which appears in the same issue of this journal, mehdi radjabalipour derives the cyclic decomposition of an algebraic linear transformation. a more general structure theory for linear transformations appears in irving kaplansky's lovely 1954 book on infinite abelian groups. we present a translation of kaplansky's results for abelian groups into the...

the menhaj al-bolagha and seraj al-odaba by hazem qartajeni is one of the most effective books on rhetoric and theory of arabic poetry. although he was grown up in an environment influenced by ibn rushd and is considered his indirect student, in this book (with a rhetoric and philosophical style) he is under the influence of ibn sina in founding and presenting the theory of arabic poetry. witho...