one whose clinical acumen, painstaking and accurate observations and valuable writings had gained for him a reputation which was world-wide and which added a lustre to British Medicine. John Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1856, and, after receiving his education at the Academy and University, he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna. His interest was early directed towards diseases of children...

On 30th December, 1944, the death occurred of Dr. John Dacre, who retired some years ago after being for many years a well-knoAvn practitioner in Clifton. ^ Dr. Dacre qualified in 1882, and in 1883 came to Bristol from Leeds Infirmary, where he had held the post of Assistant House Surgeon. In November of the same year he was elected Assistant Resident Medical Officer and Pathologist at Bristol ...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Spin Waves and Quantum Criticality in the Frustrated XY Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Er2Ti2O7 JACOB RUFF, PATRICK CLANCY, BRUCE GAULIN, HANNA DABKOWSKA, MEHMET RAMAZANOGLU, McMaster University, JASON GARDNER, NCNR, ALEX BOURQUE, MARY ANNE WHITE, Dalhousie University, YIMING QIU, JOHN COPLEY, NCNR — We report recent single crystal ne...

Social scientists have drawn attention to the role of hype and optimistic visions of the future in providing momentum to biomedical innovation projects by encouraging innovation alliances. In this article, we show how less optimistic, uncertain, and modest visions of the future can also provide innovation projects with momentum. Scholars have highlighted the need for clinicians to carefully man...

HE tumorous-head trait in Drosophila melanogaster is caused by a third chromosome gene (tu-?) showing reduced penetrance. The penetrance can be increased by a sex-linked recessive gene ( tuI ) controlling a maternal effect (GARDNER and WOOLF 1949), by polygenic modifiers (GARDNER, STOTT and DEARDEN 1952), and by high temperature during an early developmental period (GARDNER and WOOLF 1950). Whe...

A persistent, but little researched, theme in demographic transition theory is that of transition, especially fertility transition, lagging for cultural reasons behind changes in material circumstances. A sub-theme is that of the lag time being shortened by social upheaval challenging the cultural retardants and thus causing demographic behaviour to catch up with economic reality. This paper ex...

Legal analysis is a multistep process that performs the complex tasks of identifying real world activities through the lens of a predefined legal code and sets of laws. Based on a brief understanding of an issue a legal professional must make a recommendation on where to apply limited researching resources. We employ Naïve Bayes models in a parallel, nonmutually exclusive alignment towards the ...

References 11–71 can be found in Supplementary data online. 1. Goldstein JA. Angiographic plaque complexity: the tip of the unstable plaque iceberg. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;39:1464–7. 2. Moreno PR, Muller JE. Identification of high-risk atherosclerotic plaques: a survey of spectroscopic methods. Curr Opin Cardiol 2002;17:638–47. 3. Jaffer FA, Verjans JW. Molecular imaging of atherosclerosis: cli...

The field of regenerative medicine (RM) has considerable therapeutic promise that is proving difficult to realize. As a result, governments have supported the establishment of intermediary agencies to “accelerate” innovation. This article examines in detail one such agency, the United Kingdom’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGTC). We describe CGTC’s role as an accelerator agency and its value...

Howard Gardner identified five different kinds of creative activity among eminent creators, namely, solving a well-defined problem, putting forth a general conceptual scheme, creating a product that embodies ideas, stylized innovation of an art form, and a 'high-stakes' performance in the socio-political arena. In this paper, I report that Alfred Nobel's creativity can be assigned to two mutual...