Prematurity is the most common disruptor of lung development. The aim of our study was to examine the function of the more vulnerable peripheral airways in former preterm children by multiple-breath washout (MBW) measurements.86 school-aged children, born between 24 and 35 weeks of gestation and 49 term-born children performed nitrogen MBW. Lung clearance index (LCI), and slope III-derived Scon...

On January 7, 2007 Evgueni Yakovlevich Khruslov, a prominent mathematician, Academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, celebrated his 70th birthday. Evgueni Khruslov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. In 1954 he graduated from a high school at a city’s suburb. When studying at the school, he preferred exact sciences, like physics and mathematics. However, at the time of graduation, h...

American book publishing during the Second World War had to cope with a huge increase in demand for books coupled with scarcity of resources, especially paper rationing imposed by the War Production Board. Based on research in the Random House archives and focusing on the Modern Library series, this article examines how publishers coped with wartime challenges and opportunities. Random House gr...

After the Civil War wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and othermeasures of the costs of capital increased.Using archival data formanufacturing establishments, we show that capital–output and capital–labor ratios in southernmanufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the leading role the Electrical Engineering Department at Manchester played in the early development of control engineering teaching and research in the UK after the war. The holding of a major UK conference in Control Engineering in Manchester roughly 60 years after the start of this work seems an appropriate time to remind today’s researchers of these e...

Olgierd Narkiewicz was a descendant of Samogitian nobility, whose family seat was the ancestral property Szołpiany located in Taurage County of Lithuania that is well known to Polish readers of Sienkiewicz's " Trilogy ". It was the Narkiewicz family's habitat since sixteenth century. Olgierd Narkiewicz was born to Anna Umiastowska and Dr Adolf Narkiewicz, a well-to-do medical doctor. His father...