such sensitivity. Popper has already been mentioned. See also the definition of clinical physiology on page 173. This is not a book that will satisfy all of the many constituencies with an interest in Laennec. But To see with a better eye will be required reading for the serious scholar of nineteenth-century French medicine and of the history of clinical diagnosis for the foreseeable future. As...

1. Introduction The communal nature of the Internet exposes organizations and home computer users to a multitude of worms, viruses, and other malicious software (malware) threats such as spyware and Trojan horses. Viruses are program fragments attached to normal programs or files that hijack the execution control of the host program to reproduce copies of the virus. Worms are automated self-rep...

Let F denote the field of germs at +∞ of Ran,exp-definable unary functions. Starting from its characterization in terms of closure conditions as given by van den Dries, Macintyre and Marker ([3], [4]), we give a similar description of its subring consisting of the germs of polynomial growth. More precisely, denoting this ring by Fpoly and its unique maximal ideal by mpoly, our description picks...

The extracellular matrix (ECM) performs a very important role in growth regulation and tissue differentiation and organization. In view of this, the purpose of this study was to analyze the collagen, the major organic component of dental pulp ECM, in papillae of human tooth germs in different developmental phases. The maxillas and mandibles of 9 human fetuses ranging from 10 to 22 weeks of intr...