Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson (1899-1969) was a surgeon who fought in both world wars and joined the Special Operations Executive parachuting behind enemy lines into Holland, France and Borneo, the last mission being with Australian forces (Semut II). He was an expert on firearms and gave opinion on ballistics at the Old Bailey during the 1930s. He also wrote a definitive text on aut...

Many of us can relate to the story that Jon Carroll, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, tells about his first public singing recital. He had taken a series of singing lessons and then found himself standing on a stage about to sing his first solo in front of a large audience. It took him 4 attempts to find the opening note while he also battled an uncontrollable head bob. Scanning the...

In terms of the debates about substance that took place among philosophers, a very rich literature has been inherited today from Early Modern Age. mentioned literature, works famous philosophers period such as Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza come to fore. Anne Conway’s name did not gain fame with only work she wrote. However, in this onto-theological work, Conway put forward strong r...

First of all a few words of introduction . Ulam was a friend and collaborator of mine for about 50 years . We had innumerable mathematical and political discussions and have several joint papers . While discussing mostly our joint work I will neglect his work in physics, biology, computers and computer science . Ulam wrote a very successful autobiography [71 and I will mention only a few incide...

Though prior research has examined how parents use mobile devices in public, we know less about children’s of outside the home. The present study therefore explores children public places they visit with their order to conceptualize device affects interactions and environments. We used naturalistic non-participant observational methods three locations US: eateries, laundromats, airports. observ...

CORRECTION Following publication of the original article [1], the corresponding author wrote to say that he had missed the names of some of the collaborators in the list he sent to the typesetters. In addition, there was a spelling error in one of the author's names: instead of Nagriz Seyidova it should read Nargiz Seyidova. The complete list of collaborators is as follows.

Since September, Sören Finster (Fig. 1) is a memeber of the institute of telematics. In context of the E-Energy project MEREGIO he is studying distributed approaches for information and communication technology in future energy systems. He wrote his diploma thesis at the system architecture group with the topic “Design and Implementation of Energy Containers in TinyOS” at University of Karlsruhe.

The separation of the contributions to the theory and practice of socialism by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was not seriously posited during their lifetimes, but only in the following generation. The separation, as opposed to the contributions of their entire working lives, of the respective quality of thinking in either case, was a matter of which Engels was conscious, for he wrote: "Marx wa...

Piorry was born in Poitiers on 31 December 1794. As a medical student he served in the Napoleonic war in Spain. His teachers in medicine included Corvisart, Bayle, Broussais, and Magendie; he qualified in 1816 with an MD thesis: "On the danger of reading medical text books by the laity"! Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope (1816) and De l' Auscultation Médiate (1819) inspired Piorry to make ...

Editor’s Introduction: We feel privileged to republish portions of The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry. Originally published by SAGE in 1991, the book’s copyright has reverted to the author, who wished to share our selection of excerpts as a contribution to this special issue’s theme. Torbert’s body of work has always been about fostering “the development of...