The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 [4] demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the Virginia sterilization [5] law, the science used to draft the law was based on the principles of eugenics [6]. With the help of Harry Laughlin?s Model Sterilization Law [7], the state of Virginia was able to pass its own law allowing sterilizati...

The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 [4] demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the Virginia sterilization [5] law, the science used to draft the law was based on the principles of eugenics [6]. With the help of Harry Laughlin?s Model Sterilization Law [7], the state of Virginia was able to pass its own law allowing sterilizati...

The nucleic acids research community lost one of its true pioneers with the passing of Larry Grossman on January 13 at the age of 81. Larry was born and raised in New York City where he dropped out of high school to help support his family and then enlisted in the Navy as a fighter pilot. He was shot down at the age of 19 or 20 and spent two days alone in a life raft in the Pacific prior to bei...

1922-1924 was a fruitful period of Maxim Gorky's literature work. It is related to searching new art form. The cycle “Stories 1922-1924” an expressive example “new prose”. For the first time, hermit character appeared in 1922-1924”. From point view generally recognized morality and Church, type ambiguous. characterized by both sinfulness holiness.

Brochopeltismjoebergi Verhoeff, 1924 is redescribed from type and new material, a lectotype is designated and Brochopeltismjoebergiqueenslandica Verhoeff, 1924 is synonymised with Brochopeltismjoebergi. Brochopeltismediolocus sp. n. is the first native paradoxosomatid described from Australia's Northern Territory.

THE phenomenon of hypermyelinization has received much attention from neuropathologists since C. Vogt's (1911) original description of status marmoratus of the corpus striatum. It is now well established that hypermyelinized fibres in the form of plaques or as the peculiar networks which first suggested the name " marbled " may be present in many parts of the nervous system, though they are mos...

Six taxa of limnoterrestrial rhabdocoels are discussed, two of them, both belonging to Typhloplanidae Graff, 1905, are new to science. Adenoplea reisingeri n. sp. can be distinguished from its congeners by the absence of a separate seminal receptacle, the presence of a copulatory bursa and the fact that it has an unarmed copulatory organ. Carcharodopharynx schlitzensis n. sp. can be distinguish...

Arthur Kohlenberg, one of the best-known members of the Information Theory Group, died on July 19, 1970 from Hodgkins' disease. His career spanned a number of disciplines. He received his B.A. in physics from Columbia at the age of 19. After three years as an army officer, he continued in physics at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1950. Subsequently, after two years of teaching quantum ...