This essay briefly examines the British military and their decline as a world military leader between 1919-1939. During this period one could argue that naiveté clouded the lens through which they viewed military power in general in relation to other nations causing miscalculations in particular with regard to strategic policy considerations. We can contrast their lens then with our lens today ...

Roy John Britten studied DNA sequences in the US in the second half of the twentieth century, and he helped discover repetitive elements in DNA sequences. Additionally, Britten helped propose models and concepts of gene regulatory networks [5]. Britten studied the organization [6] of repetitive elements and, analyzing data from the Human Genome Project, he found that the repetitive elements in ...

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was Charles Darwin's foremost champion at the turn of the nineteenth century. More people prior to World War I learned of evolutionary theory through his voluminous publications than through any other source. His Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (Natural history of creation, 1868) went through 12 increasingly augmented German editions (1868–1920) and was tra...

E ugene Patrick Kennedy died peacefully at his Cambridge home, age 92 years, on September 22, 2011. He was a giant of 20th century biochemistry, and his pioneering studies of lipid biosynthesis and function were a foundation of modern cell biology. He was also a man of immense intellect and genuine modesty, a devoted teacher who inspired his many students and colleagues, and a loving father, gr...

Michael, E. L. The functional relation of one variable to each of a number of correlated variables determined by a method of successive approximation to group averages; a contribution to statistical methods. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 55, 1919 (95-133). Reed, H. S. and Holland, R. H. The growth rate of an annual plant, Helianthus. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 5, 1919 (135-144). Robertson, T. B. On ...

Spatial variations in disease patterns of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic remain poorly studied. We explored the association between influenza death rates, transmissibility and several geographical and demographic indicators for the autumn and winter waves of the 1918-1919 pandemic in cities, towns and rural areas of England and Wales. Average measures of transmissibility, estimated by the rep...

Confirmation of the presence in France temporary parasitic ant Bothriomyrmex communista Santschi, 1919 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). - The species 1919, a social parasite species, is confirmed as member French fauna.

Our intention is to present Q. Majorana (1871–1957) further documents, experimental manuscripts and results on the hypothetical physical effect of gravitational absorption. Majorana carried out his experiments thanks to two main apparata, the first at the Polytechnic of Turin (1918-1919; 1919-1921), the second at the Institute of Physics of Bologna University (1922-1924). A comparison of the re...

Cytoplasmic CstF-77 protein belongs to a Masking Complex with CPEB in Xenopus Oocytes Christel Rouget, Catherine Papin and Elisabeth Mandart From the Centre de Recherches de Biochimie Macromoléculaire, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 05, France Running title: Cytoplasmic CstF-77 in masking mRNA Address correspondence to Elisabeth Mandart: CRBM, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 3429...

The Australian endemic genus Enhypnon Carter (Coleoptera, Zopheridae) is revised, including the description of six new species: E. cordicollis sp. n., E. kosciuszko sp. n., E. simplex sp. n., E. squamosum sp. n., E. latitarsis sp. n., and E. tuberculatum sp. n., and the re-description of four species: E. costatum (Carter, 1919) comb. n. (from Mnionophilus), E. horridum (Carter, 1919), E. latice...