CONTENTS Speaker Biographies ..........................................................................i Department of Biology ......................................................................1 Department of Chemistry & Physics ....................................................4 Department of Economics, Finance & Decision Sciences .........................9 Department of English, Theater...

Geoffrey Harris is chiefly known for his demonstration of the control of the pituitary gland by the portal vessels coming from the hypothalamus. This does not do justice to his extraordinary contribution to biology. Harris' life's work was central in demonstrating the brain/body interactions by which animals and humans adapt to their environment, and above all the control of that most crucial a...

BACKGROUND We investigated the effects of using large-diameter femoral heads in total hip prostheses on early postoperative gait restoration in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHODS We collected data for 19 primary THAs using 28-mm metal-on-polyethylene heads (conventional group) and for 12 THAs (BHR group) using metal-on-metal femoral heads with an average size of 45 mm (...