the result of the efforts of Drs. N. L. Hoerr, A. Osol, S. W. Chase, Carl F. Francis, and the co-operation of eighty-eight contributors. A special effort has been made to include some of the newer terms from the vocabularies of thoracic surgeons, psychiatrists, and tumor investigators. Oncologic terms have been increased by at least two hundred. In microbiology, the names of genera have been mo...

Expression profiling using DNA arrays is often believed to have appeared during the second half of the 1990s, and to be based exclusively on nonisotopic methods. In fact, the first article describing the application of cDNA arrays to expression analysis was published in 1992, relied on radioactive labeling, and was a new development of "high-density" membranes used until then essentially for ef...

Simplifying and structuring qualitatively complex knowledge, quantifying it in a certain way to make it reusable and easily accessible are all aspects that are not new to historians. Computer science is currently approaching a solution to some of these problems, or at least making it easier to work with historical data. In this paper, we propose a historical knowledge representation model takin...