Topical therapy of onychomycosis, a fungal infection of nail plate and/or nail bed, offers an attractive alternative to treatment with systemic antifungals. To treat fungal infections locally, antifungal-loaded nail lacquers have been prepared in our laboratory. Franz diffusion cells have been used to investigate drug permeation from such lacquers into and through the nail plate in vitro. Altho...

Franz cells (2-chambered, air/fluid phase static diffusion devices, previously used for the study of drugs across viable human skin) are utilized for the first time to investigate the process of infection of human skin by Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. Skin obtained from cosmetic surgery sources was used in the Franz cells to describe the temporal dynamics of the early interaction of cercariae ...

Three species of Stenichnaphes Franz were described from New Zealand: St. urbanus Franz (type species of the genus), St. peloriensis Franz and St. newtoni Franz, but the two former names were later synonymized. Basing on detailed morphological study, St. peloriensis is reinstated as a separate species, and St. newtoni is transferred to Scydmaenilla King, within Zeanilla subg. n., resulting in S...

Examination of the holotype of the type species of Stenichnodes Franz revealed that morphological structures of this Afrotropical genus are nearly identical with those of later described Oriental Parastenichnaphes Franz. Consequently, Parastenichnaphes is reduced to a subgenus of Stenichnodes, resulting in Stenichnodes (Parastenichnaphes) sumatrensis Franz, comb. n. and Stenichnodes (Parastenic...

Franz Peherstorfer was born in Zwettl an der Rodl, a village near Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria. After attending elementary and secondary schools in and around Linz, he matriculated in the newly founded Johannes Kepler Universität Linz1 in 1970 where he obtained his university degrees, Masters (1975) and Ph.D.2 (1977), both with summa cum laude. He was appointed as Assistent the...

Two species of Australian Cyrtoscydmini were placed in the subgenus Magellanoconnus Franz of Sciacharis Broun: S. carinifrons (Franz) and S. kangarouana (Franz) (both originally described in Neuraphoconnus, a junior synonym of Magellanoconnus Franz). Examination of type specimens revealed that these species names, published in the same paper, are synonymous and S. carinifrons is here selected a...

Sciacharis s. str. is redefined based on the morphology of its type species, S. fulva Broun, and compared with sympatric genera Chathamaenus Franz (endemic to New Zealand) and Maorinus Franz (known from New Zealand and Australia). As a result, Chathamaenus is placed as a junior synonym of Sciacharis s. str., and Maorinus, originally described as a subgenus of Euconnus Thomson (under a preoccupi...

Cultural relativism continues to be closely identified with anthropology even though few anthropologists today endorse the comprehensive version of it first articulated by students of Franz Boas. A review of the progressive reduction of the scope of cultural relativism since the early decades of the twentieth century suggests that it should be regarded not as a comprehensive theory or doctrine ...

* This work would not be possible without the many outstanding collaborators and graduate students with whom I have had the privilege of working. I also thank Jang Woo Park for comments on an earlier draft, and Roger Franz for the invitation to contribute this chapter.