In the British Medical Journal of Aug. 14, 1943 (p. 203), Prof. Bogomoletz published an article in which he claimed that he had produced a serum the use of which caused considerable amelioration both of symptoms and of pathological tissue changes in " rheumatism." The Empire Rheumatism Council invited Prof. Bogomoletz to send some of this serum to this country in order that it might be tested u...

R. Scott Hawley is an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City and a Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his studies of meiotic chromosome behaviour in Drosophila females. Indeed, an anonymous reviewer of one of his research proposals once claimed that Hawley “had elevated the genetic analysis of meiosis in Drosop...

Mr. S is a 54-year-old executive with a 60 pack-year smoking history. He presented to his physician after spiral computed tomography (CT) imaging, performed during an “executive physical,” revealed a 1.9-cm nodule in the left upper lobe, with no evidence of hilar or mediastinal adenopathy. Mr. S denied cough, hemoptysis, and shortness of breath. He also denied any pain, anorexia, or weight loss...

regarding the formative period of shi'i islam and shi'i intellectual history, seyyed hosein modarresi tabatabayi in his work (“maktab dar farayande takamol”) proposed a plan according to which he claimed that some of the shi'i traditions (ahadith) which are not consistent with his plan, are fictitious. examining the sufficiency and correctness of his arguments, we can classify hi...

We are reporting a case of an eye lesion caused by an adult Brugia malayi. The patient was a 3-year-old Chinese boy from Kemaman District, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. He presented with a one week history of redness and palpebral swelling of his right eye. He claimed that he could see a worm in his right eye beneath the conjunctiva. He had no history of traveling overseas and the family kep...

Notre Dame Security is investigating a report o f students being approached and asked fo r money under false pretenses. The report was filed by a student who was approached by a black male at 9:50 a.m. on the morning of Nov. 5 in the C-2 parking lot. According to Chuck Hurley, assistant director of University Security, the man approached the student, claiming that he had locked his keys in his ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...