EDITOR Dr. Rosen graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, then trained in internal medicine at the University of Alabama, and in dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently serves as Professor of Dermatology at Baylor and Chief of Dermatology at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is active in the American Academy of Dermatology, having served on the Boa...

In writing the third edition of the popular textbook Biochemistry, Lubert Stryer was faced with a formidable task. He had to expand and modify the text to incorporate the explosion of biochemical information that has resulted from numerous discoveries in the seven years since the second edition was published. At the same time he had to maintain the clarity and ready comprehension that character...

In their preface to the fourth edition of Psychiatric Diagnosis, authors Goodwin and Guze are clear on the limitations of their work: there is little "theory" or "speculation" nor any unproved claims in this review of a dozen psychiatric diagnoses. While this approach leaves a straightforward and complete compendium of current knowledge, it also handicaps the work. Like other texts, it provides...

The rate of increase in database size and response time requirements has outpaced advancements in processor and mass storage technology. One way to satisfy the increasing demand for processing power and I/O bandwidth in database applications is to have a number of processors, loosely or tightly coupled, serving database requests concurrently. Technologies developed during the last decade have m...

Although it is extremely diff icult to analyze glycans, fortunately, glycan research has been active in Japan, and many analysis technologies and glycosidase essential for glycomic research were created in Japan. 1) On the other hand, at the beginning of the 21st century, it was thought that structural glycomics would be done well by “mass spectrometry.” While mass spectrometry is highly effect...

155 Yet for over two centuries, from about 1637 to 1867, nearly the entire period in which feudal Japan was ruled from Edo (Tokyo) by the Tokugawa shoguns, the feudal lords (daimyo) and warrior class (bushi) ignored or disparaged the gun (matchlock) as a combat weapon. In Japan the sword was preeminent from the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637 to the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877-twenty-five years after...

The first edition of Human Structure was published in 1972 for use as an anatomy text. Since then, most medical schools have significantly decreased the time allotted to gross anatomy. This new edition is designed to fit a shortened anatomy course. The outline is unchanged from the previous edition, with 57 short chapters organized in eight general sections. The first section, "General Introduc...

−87− Synthesiology English edition Vol.4 No.2 pp.87-98 (Oct. 2011) of humanoids, where the robots are made to perform certain acts to be viewed and heard by an audience. There are many thoughts on how such performances could be used, but seen from the technological perspective, many performances can be captured within the framework of “content technology”. Here, “content” means a set of informa...

This well-known hook is now appearing in its seventh edition. The first edition was published in 1935. It was even then the most authoritative and elaborate treatise on antenatal care which was then coming into prominence both amongst practitioners and patients. The present edition is an invaluable production. It. has been extensively rewritten and many new matters have been incorporated. It is...