David Charles Rayner, a former president of the Medical Chirurgical Society, died in a Clifton Nursing Home on the 21st October, 1945. lie was a student of the Bristol Medical School, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., in 1892. He obtained the F.R.C.S. in 1896, became an original Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, and received the Ch.M. degree from Bristol Univ...

In 1998 the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) undertook a commitment to develop a range of web-based learning resources for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. The result is a collection of resources, suggested learning strategies and supporting material known as Toolboxes. While toolboxes have provided a quality resource for online learners, they have not always bee...

This intensely human and at times moving document should he read by all psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric social workers, Local Authority Mental Health Committee members and the framers of our new National Health Service. It contains the edited writings of a sufferer from a severe obsessive compulsive state, whose main symptoms are fear of open spaces and a compulsion to indecen...

In the middle of the 1980s, David Poole introduced a semantical, model-theoretic notion of specificity to the artificial-intelligence community. Since then it has found further applications in non-monotonic reasoning, in particular in defeasible reasoning. Poole tried to approximate the intuitive human concept of specificity, which seems to be essential for reasoning in everyday life with its p...

In 1982, David spent a sabbatical year in Paris at the Laboratoire ofÉconométrie de l' ´ Ecole Polytechnique. He enjoyed so much his stay there that he came back to buy a flat. The atmosphere at the Laboratoire was a little bit unusual. The large and beautiful building, right in the center of Paris, was almost empty, left by its students who had moved outside Paris, and occupied by a handful of...

The software industry has existed since the mid-1950s, but until about 1970 very little attention was paid to it, largely because the industry was too small to merit detailed analysis other than as an unquantified sector of the overall computer business. As late as 1970, the annual turnover of all U.S. software firms was less than $1/2 billion – about 3.7 percent per cent of the total computer ...

that the paying customers make a contribution to the conservation of the species. A recent research paper shows, however, that the process has not led to any successful re-integration of lions into the wild, because captivebred lions and their offspring are ill-suited for survival compared with their wild-born peers (Oryx (2012) doi:10.1017/S0030605312000695). “The simple fact is, ‘lion encount...

was considered the greatest American surgeon of his time. Among his many writings was a treatise on the genito-urinary organs (1851) containing the first account of the distribution of urinary calculi. He was immortalized in the monumental (8 ft by 6 ft, 6 in) painting by Thomas Eakins known as The Gross Clinic which now hangs in the Jefferson Medical College. Fielding Garrison, in his authorit...

Dr. David Rimm, MD PhD, is a professor of Pathology at the Yale University School of Medicine specializing in developing quantitative, diagnostic techniques. His lab recently engineered a fluorescence-based algorithm, Automated Quantitative Analysis (AQUA), to analyze tissue microarrays in the hope of moving toward personalized medicine and diagnoses.