includes an excellent historical postscript. Almost 70 per cent of this book is devoted to the interface, which the authors realize is the problem area, that the body presents between the physiological event and the resulting electrical signal. The two final chapters are a well prepared introduction to amplifiers and the necessary criteria for faithful reproduction of electrical data discussed ...

Since October of 1987, Jacques Mulnard has been Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He arrived as a student in 1939 and achieved a brilliant record in his medical studies. The difficult circumstances of the war were soon to reveal his attachment to his Institution and his exceptional qualities as a pedagogue and humanist. During his t...

BACKGROUND Previously manual human embryology in many in vitro fertilization (IVF) centers is rapidly being replaced by closed embryo incubation systems with time-lapse imaging. Whether such systems perform comparably to manual embryology in different IVF patient populations has, however, never before been investigated. We, therefore, prospectively compared embryo quality following closed syste...

As one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington [5] Department of Embryology, Warren Harmon Lewis made a number of contributions to the field of embryology [6]. In addition to his experimental discoveries on muscle development and the eye, Lewis also published and revised numerous works of scientific literature, including papers in the Carnegie Contributions to Embryology ...

presented in sufficient detail to obviate in most instances reference to the original article, if indeed the particular procedure did not originate with, or was not modified by, Gomori himself. There are forty references to his work and most of these describe techniques he has introduced or studied. The author is known for his critical faculty. This is given full expression in the present work....