OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of clinical presentation of carcinoma of the cervix in Nnewi Southeast Nigeria with a view to determining strategies for intervention. METHOD This is a retrospective descriptive study involving all cases of clinically diagnosed carcinoma of the cervix seen over a five year period. RESULTS Forty three case notes were available for study. The age range was 3...

Although depressive disorders have been known for centuries, drug treatment is relatively recent. It was only in the 1950s, when studyof a drug for tuberculosis, Iproniazid, that its antidepressant propertieswere identified. After 50 years more selective and specific drugs have been discovered. The authors review not only new realities in depressive psychopathology, but also the latest innovati...

1. The Debate: Conceptual Themes 2. Function vs. Form: Rational Principles, Taxonomy, & Comparative Anatomy 3. Functional Anatomy vs. Philosophical Anatomy: Scientific Explanation in Comparative Anatomy 4. Observation vs. Hypothesis: The Role of Induction in 19th Century Science 5. Limited Variation (within embranchements [3]) vs. Teratological Evolution 6. After the Debate: Reinterpretations i...

Foodborne illnesses occur in both industrialized and developing countries, and may be increasing due to rapidly evolving food production practices. Yet some primary tools used to assess food safety are decades, if not centuries, old. To improve the time to result for food safety assessment a sensitive flow cytometer based system to detect microbial contamination was developed. By eliminating ba...

During the last years, a large number of information in digital form has been exchanged all over the world. Several techniques have been developed in order to protect the users’ privacy of digital content. Steganography is one of them. Its use dates back for many centuries, yet it has been used profoundly in the last decades, as the proper mathematical background has been developed along with t...

The New World was ravaged by smallpox for several centuries after the Spanish conquest. Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccine made possible the prevention and control of smallpox epidemics. In response to a large outbreak of smallpox in the Spanish colonies, King Charles IV appointed Francisco Xavier de Balmis to lead an expedition that would introduce Jenner’s vaccine to these colonies. D...

More than 270 years ago plants played the pivotal role in a remarkable discovery: Organisms possess within themselves a surprisingly accurate timing device that synchronizes physiology with the daily environmental cycle. The field of circadian biology arose from the curious observation of de Mairan in 1729 that the daily leaf movements of plants (Mimosa pudica) persisted for several days after ...

1. INTRODUCTION. After two centuries of experimentation with alternative allocation rules, and considerable political maneuvering, the issue of the " best " method for allocating seats in the U.S. House of Representatives remains unsettled, although the field has narrowed considerably to so-called " divisor " methods.

I used this anthology of compiled articles to add to my background knowledge of Yugoslavia before, during and after the war. This book was written relatively close to the end of war and therefore I approached this book with a level of skepticism. Additionally, this book was written for a mid-European studies center and thus this book approaches history in a different manner due to the audience....