Field and laboratory findings implicated Culex pipiens as a vector of Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus during the 1977-1978 epizootics/epidemics in Egypt. This study evaluated changes in infection and transmission rates, and viral titers in F, through F,6 generation Cx. pipiens mosquitoes orally infected with RVF virus. Infection and transmission rates of RVF S virus by this species changed signif...

IT IS an honour to be invited to join the company of distinguished speakers who have given this address in previous years. Of those who have referred to the care of the aged I can remember Dr. Marjory Warren, Lord Amulree, and especially our own great physician Sir William Thomson. He anticipated the days of guest speakers, and was invited to move the adoption of your annual report 18 years ago...

Background Inflammation may be important in the pathogenesis of atherothrombosis. We studied whether inflammation increases the risk of a first thrombotic event and whether treatment with aspi­ rin decreases the risk. Methods We measured plasma C­reactive protein, a marker for systemic inflammation, in 543 appar­ ently healthy men participating in the Physicians’ Healt...

In 1995, Allen Fisher published a poem entitled ‘Mummers’ Strut’ in an issue of the magazine West Coast Line,[1] accompanied by a statement of poetics. The poem is organised into twentyseven short numbered sections, mostly in couplets, ranging from two to twenty lines in length. The predominant impression is of a fragmented discourse that is hard to read as constructing a consistent speaking vo...

IT has long been the tradition of this hospital for a member of the medical staff, appointed to the duty by his colleagues, to deliver an address to the students at the commencement of the winter teaching session. Indeed, it was already an oldestablished custom in 1852 when Dr. Andrew Malcolm graced the office of orator.' I feel greatly honoured to have been entrusted with this very special res...

Cinematography relies on a rich vocabulary of shots and framing parameters to communicate narrative event structures. This cinematic vocabulary stems from the physical capabilities of camera movement and uses aesthetic aspects to engage the audience and influence audience comprehension. At present, automatic physical camera control is limited in cinematic vocabulary. Virtual cameras, on the oth...

on cognitive science and AI, with research on topics such as creativity, natural language processing, robotics and embedded systems, information filtering and retrieval, image processing, and human-computer interaction. The workshop was held in the lecture room (oratory) of the St. Anthony’s College building, which was used as a seminary in previous years; it was appropriate for this event, whi...

We have expanded on previous methods for correcting sense, the requirement of thermodynamic equilibrium in thermal infrared field measurements for atmospheric Kirchhoff ’s law is violated (Badenas, 1997). downwelling radiance (Salisbury and D’Aria, 1992; Korb Nerry et al. (1990a,b) and Labed and Stoll (1991) et al., 1996; Hook and Kahle, 1996) by comparing the used the ‘‘emissivity box’’ approa...