fundamental to Freud's later work. She also stresses the importance of Freud's six-month stint in 1883 as junior houseman in Theodor Meynert's Institute of Cerebral Anatomy. In his teaching at that time, and in his Psychiatrie (1884), Meynert placed great weight on the first and third principles of Darwin's Expression of the emotions which Freud was to apply in Studies on hysteria (1893-95). Br...

Background Tomaso Casoni (Figure 1A &1B) earned his fame by the test named after him [1]. Casoni was first to describe a test for immediate allergic reaction to hydatid fluid injected into the skin (Figure 2). This was in a time when hydatid disease caused by infection by Echinococcus granlulosus was endemic in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in addition to many other parts of the world. The...

When I close my eyes and think of Gopal Das I see him in the dimly lit Neuroanatomy teaching lab on the second floor of Lily Hall at Purdue, standing behind an overhead projector, his face eerily illuminated by the light from the vents around the projector, describing the connections of brainstem, enwrapping each concept of connectivity, cytology and cytoarchitecture in his own form of poetry, ...

A new approach to cointegration developed by Enders et al. (Cointegration tests using instrumental variables with an example of the U.K. demand for money. Unpublished working paper. http://wenders.people.ua.edu/time-seriesmethods.html, 2008) is applied to long-span, high-frequency data to test for purchasing power parity in the Mexico–US real exchange rate. Overall the empirical results suggest...

Robert Treat Paine III passed away June 13 in Seattle surrounded by family and friends. RTP, as he was known, was an emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, where he developed a career that helped define the field of community ecology. Ever an avid naturalist who paid close attention to the specifics of a bird song or a starfish’s diet, RTP’s best-known contributions were the concep...

The main goal of the article is to compare crisis role German Reichstag und Austrian Nationalrat in early 1930’s and how relationship parliament-government/president was influenced that respect. We argue system emergency decrees President (Article 48 Weimar Constitution) systematically undermined parliament favour state bureaucracy a technocratic government. In Austria, since March 4, 1933 Doll...