The UK Drug Utilization Research Group's (DURG) Regional Meeting 'New Horizons: Pharmacovigilance' was hosted by the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) at Southampton on 19 May 2000. Opening the meeting, Dr Keith Beard, UK DURG chairman, welcomed delegates and speakers and thanked the DSRU team for hosting the meeting. With reference to the theme of the meeting - new horizons in pharmacovigilance...

In the book e Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer, the authors present the pioneering work of Dr. John Beard, the English scientist who 100 years ago may have solved the cancer riddle. It was Dr. Beard who rst suggested that pancreatic enzymes, above and beyond their well-known digestive function, represent the body’s main defense against cancer. In Trophoblast, Dr. Gonzalez shows how contemp...

In this paper a methodology is proposed to segment beard and glasses on frontal face images. Active Appearance Model (AAM) generative power is used to find the equivalent face without beard nor glasses. These artefacts can be detected and then segmented by difference between the original face image and its free-from-artefact equivalent. We replace the segmented pixels with non-beard and non-gla...

Inclusive fitness theory predicts that natural selection will favour altruist genes that are more accurate in targeting altruism only to copies of themselves. In this paper, we provide evidence from digital evolution in support of this prediction by competing multiple altruist-targeting mechanisms that vary in their accuracy in determining whether a potential target for altruism carries a copy ...

Human hair follicles, which are distributed in various and specific sites of the body, appear to have an inherited susceptibility for androgen-dependent growth. Beard, axillary, and frontal scalp dermal papilla cells (DPC) were recently shown to possess the characteristics of androgen target cells. These DPC show strong expression of androgen receptors, and the expression of type II 5alpha redu...

Fractures of the caudal portion of the mandible and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) fracture-luxation can be challenging to treat with direct fixation methods. This paper describes a simple technique for the indirect treatment of caudal mandibular fracture and TMJ fracture-luxation using a subcutaneous loop of nylon leader line tunnelled around the maxilla, incisive and nasal bones, and under the...

A "green beard" refers to a gene, or group of genes, that is able to recognize itself in other individuals and direct benefits to these individuals. Green-beard effects have been dismissed as implausible by authors who have implicitly assumed sophisticated mechanisms of perception and complex behavioral responses. However, many simple mechanisms for genes to "recognize" themselves exist at the ...