Neither the sun, nor death, can be looked at with a steady eye Duc de La Rochefoucauld (Maxims) In the Editorial which accompanied the mini supplement on the 'Patients Voice', I looked back into the past and made some brief speculations about what the next thousand years might bring. There is no doubt that epilepsy is moving forward; we have gained a great deal of knowledge in the last 10–20 ye...

The diagnosis and treatment of ocular inflammatory disease began as a scientific discipline in the 17th century, with the recognition of infectious diseases, such as gonorrhea, that can affect the eye. Thereafter, for the better part of the next 2 centuries, most all ocular inflammatory diseases were considered infectious in nature, with syphilis and tuberculosis believed to be the primary culp...

Make more knowledge even in less time every day. You may not always spend your time and money to go abroad and get the experience and knowledge by yourself. Reading is a good alternative to do in getting this desirable knowledge and experience. You may gain many things from experiencing directly, but of course it will spend much money. So here, by reading human rights in the new millennium, you...

Editors’ Note: LeBaron and Patera use their own cultures – Canadian and Austrian respectively – to examine the teaching assumptions of a group of top-flight teachers of negotiation. They discover a number of unstated theoretical assumptions, heavily influenced by Western thought in general and U.S. culture in particular, and demonstrate alternate assumptions which might better guide second gene...

The initiatives known as the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) of the early 1990's, of the Automated Highway System and the Intelligent Transportation System of the middle 90's, and now USDOT's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative of 1998, have all created a climate for rapid advance in ground vehicle communication and control technology. An industry such as that of aerospace lighting, with i...

Agricultural automation is expected to continue in the new millennium. Reasons are given why a number of prototype automation systems developed in the 20th century have not yet proceeded to commercialisation. Some barriers that have deterred this are identified, and it is suggested that research to overcome these barriers will be a focus of future activity. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All righ...

May/June 2000, Vol.7, No.3 Cancer Control 209 The aftermath of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl sensitized a large proportion of the general public about not only the importance of thyroid cancer as a disease, but also the need to minimize radiation exposure of children as a preventive measure. However, many physicians, including some oncologists, regard thyroid cancer as a rather puzzling but...

Econometric theory is like an exquisitely balanced French recipe, spelling out precisely with how many turns to mix the sauce, how many carats of spice to add, and for how many seconds to bake the mixture at exactly 474 degrees of temperature. But when the statistical cook turns to the raw materials, he finds that hearts of cactus fruits are unavailable, so he substitutes cantaloupe; where the ...