This study investigated the association between prostate cancer risk and energy restriction during childhood. The authors examined the hypothesis among 58,279 men aged 55-69 years enrolled in the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer. Information on diet and risk factors was collected by questionnaire in 1986. Additional information was collected on residence during the Dutch Hunger Winte...

Based on comparison of specimens and descriptions, Mitragomphus ganzanus Needham, 1944, described from Braganza [Bragança], Pará State, Brazil, and known only from the holotype, is found to be a junior synonym of Gomphidia kirschii Selys, 1878, a species from the Philippines. The monotypic genus Mitragomphus Needham, 1944, is synonymized with the genus Gomphidia Selys, 1854. 

This paper treats in detail the life and work of Otto Blumenthal, one of the most tragic figures of the 188 emigré mathematicians from Germany and the Nazi-occupied continent. Blumenthal, the first doctoral student of David Hilbert, was crucial in the publication and communication system of German mathematics between the two World Wars. There has been an unusual revival of interest in his mathe...

This analysis of the Brazilian geography congresses sponsored by the Geography Society of Rio de Janeiro between 1909 and 1944 identifies commonalities as well as differences over the years. Given how these scientific events focused on both the state of the art within the field as well as on its overall development, such an analysis serves as a good thermometer for measuring the social, economi...

The world of cellular and molecular medicine is deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news that Professor Laurentiu Mircea Popescu has passed away due to lung cancer on Monday morning of August 3, 2015. Professor Popescu was a world-recognized leader of cellular and molecular medicine and worked in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, since 1991 before becoming the General Di...

Kotarski NOO Čabar je osnovan u lipnju 1943. godine. Do srpnja 1944. godine Njegovo unutrašnje ustrojstvo je bilo usklađeno s uputstvima ZAVNOH-a. Zapisnik sjednice KNOO-a Čabar od 25. istudenog 1944. s prilozima pojedinih njegovih odjela najbolji Isu pokazatelj preokupacija i djelatno­ sti KNOO-a čabar kao organa ^uprave i sudstva nove jugoslavenske države na oslobođenom području okruga ^Gorsk...

A lexis Carrel, recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born in a small townnear Lyon, France, on June 28, 1873. His father, a wealthy textile manufacturer, died when he was 5 years old. He was educated in Jesuit schools and entered medical school in 1890, at the age of 17. During the 1890s, Carrel interned at several hospitals near Lyon and was described as a “good but not brilliant...

Abstract This is a tribute to István Deák, prominent historian of Habsburg history. The covers his early life in Budapest, the son middle-class family Jewish origins who suffered as Jew 1944. Deák left Hungary 1944, spent several years France and Germany, then came United States 1956. Much commemoration career professor history at Columbia University very significant scholarly contributions.