Professor Roger Nordmann, founder of the pioneering European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA), passed away on Friday, 24 January 2014. His tireless dedication to the organization calls for a testimony to a remarkable profile of achievement, devotion and action. Born on 24 May 1926 and raised in the city of Strasbourg, he attended high school at the Lycée Fustel de Coulanges...

IN BRINGING this Symposium to a close, I shall deal with one of the most dramatic and lethal complications of liver disease-rupture of an oesophageal varix. These patients die from loss of blood or liver failure, or more usually, a combination of both factors. The development of liver failure with increasing jaundice, ascites and hepatic coma is inevitable if bleeding is allowed to continue. Th...

This study compared various biased estimation and subset selection regression techniques over a wide range of realistic situations. In an attempt to make the results applicable to the class of all practical regression problems, the parameters relevant to a comparison of the techniques involved were varied systematically. An outline of the design follows. (1) The residual variance ((sigma)('2)) ...