September 6, 2009. I’m writing in the wake of ISMP 2009 in Chicago, which ended last weekend. All involved in the organization were delighted with how well the meeting ran, and hope that all attendees (over 1200 of them) found it to be a rich and valuable experience, both professionally and personally. There are too many highlights to recount here; suffice to say the event’s success indicates t...

The opening of Indian economy for global competition has forced Indian entrepreneur to utilize advance technologies for productivity enhancement, so that they are not forced to shut down their enterprises. In this paper the advance methodologies for product life cycle cost reduction have been explained so that the customers are not only satisfied but delighted and astonished to get such good pr...

Introduction We are delighted to welcome you to the new online journal, Dynamic Medicine. This journal is available on the World Wide Web, [http://www.dynamic-med.com/] as well as through PubMed Central, [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/], the National Institute of Health's repository for biomedical research articles, and from the BioMed Central website [http://www.biomedcentral.com]. Readers ...

I wish to thank very much Messrs. Smith and Howard of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company for inviting me to speak before you. I am indeed delighted to be here. Nevertheless, I am mindful that I start from a rather disadvantageous position for two reasons « First of all it may be very difficult for me, even under the most auspicious of circumstances, to keep up with the overall tone of pr...

no pain, but after the first two months great sensitiveness was produced and the patients were caused some distress. They, however, without exception willingly endured this, being delighted at the returning sensation as a sign of recovery. Method of recording results.?Of the two most striking features of leprosy, anaesthesia and nodular swellings, the former is far the easier to accurately reco...

Looking Back, Moving Forward I am delighted to present the fourth issue of the ACG Case Reports Journal, which culminates our first year of publication. Over the past year, we received 470 submissions, of which 81 were selected for publication. Our success would not be possible without the efforts of the authors, reviewers, and editors, as well as ACG Publications Committee and ACG support staf...

Leeuwenhoek's 1677 paper, the famous 'letter on the protozoa', gives the first detailed description of protists and bacteria living in a range of environments. The colloquial, diaristic style conceals the workings of a startlingly original experimental mind. Later scientists could not match the resolution and clarity of Leeuwenhoek's microscopes, so his discoveries were doubted or even dismisse...

I AM delighted to respond to the Honorary Editor's invitation to write for the Journal of the Royal College ofGeneral Practitioners about some ofthe major issues in American medicine. They are physician-centred issues, but they have arisen from concerns expressed by the public and the government. They are: the evaluation of the necessity and the quality of medical care, and the evaluation of th...

The Giving Pledge is a moral commitment by some of the world's wealthiest individuals and families to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. It is a noble cause directed toward addressing society's most pressing problems. The pledge, and the people who have committed to the pledge, are to be admired for their generosity and vision. As scientists we typically do not accru...

The delight of finding unexpected connections is one of the rewards of studying mathematics. In this talk, based on joint work with Ibtesam Bajunaid, Joel Cohen, and David Singman, I will discuss the connections that link the following seven superficially unrelated entities: (A) A function of the sort that calculus textbooks often use to show that a continuous function need not have a derivativ...