Robert F. Denno was widely recognized as one of the leading insect ecologists in the world. He made major contributions to the study of plant-insect interactions, dispersal, interspecific competition, predator-prey interactions, and food web dynamics. He was especially well known for his detailed and comprehensive study of the arthropods that inhabit salt marshes. Denno promoted a research appr...

‘Future Designers’ is an interactive and participative crash course that aims to introduce to children the concepts and practice of ‘creativity’, ‘design’, and ‘design thinking’. The course targets multiple learning styles and intelligences, combining various learning approaches and tools. The full course lasts 4-5 hours and can be delivered in a single or two sessions. Up to now, five pilot st...

Laha distribution has been introduced in 1958 as an example of a nonnormal distribution where the quotient follows the Cauchy law. In this paper we present two procedures for the computer generation of this distribution and we discuss its applications to life time modelling.

THE natural history of migraine raises many problems for clinicians. The main features of the syndrome are well known and have been described in medical and lay literature from early times. Nevertheless, there are many difficulties which need to be resolved, and it was only in April 1969 that the World Federation of Neurologists was able to agree on a definition of what symptoms constituted an ...

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The availability of the draft sequence of the chicken genome will undoubtedly propel an already important vertebrate research model, the domestic chicken, to a new level. This review describes aspects of chicken natural history and cross-disciplinary biological value. The diversity of extant genetic variants available to researchers is reviewed along with institutional stock locations for North...

This paper reports results from a detailed study of the careers of laboratory technicians in British medical research. Technicians and their contributions are very frequently missing from accounts of modern medicine, and this project is an attempt to correct that absence. The present paper focuses almost entirely on the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in North...

The story of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) can be looked upon as one of the followers from the early days of the development of Societies and federations for persons interested in Information Technology and in cooperation and exchange of information and technology, not only in countries but also between countries.

In this paper we compare a general size-structured population model, where a size-structured consumer feeds upon an unstructured resource, to its simplified stage-structured counterpart in terms of equilibrium stability. Stability of the size-structured model is understood in terms of an equivalent delayed system consisting of a renewal equation for the consumer population birth rate and a dela...

To date, asthma remains one of the most frequent chronic diseases in children and adults worldwide [1, 2]. Despite our increased knowledge of the mechanisms and treatments of asthma, we need to better understand the natural history of this lifelong disease. In mild asthma, compliance and adherence to existing and efficient therapies are the main problem whereas in severe asthma, innovative trea...