Ivan Whiteside Magill, from Larne, is one of our most illustrious 'wild geese' (Fig 1). In 1912 as a medical student he was issued with a certificate confirming that he had, as part of his training, administered one anaesthetic (Fig 2). At that time, this was the only statutory requirement of training in anaesthesia for the qualifying examination of MB, BCh, BAO. The certificate was signed by R...

In this article we propose a review of some different techniques and methods to evaluate the usability of user interfaces (UI). So far, the evaluation process has been mostly based on "craft techniques" [Long 89], but as we will demonstrate, formalisation is possible, and a few software packages in this domain will be presented. The models and techniques we will consider are: • general guidelin...

dinosaur dominance Q:4; 5; 6 for 30 million years Jessica H. Whiteside, Sofie Q:7 Lindström, Randall Irmis, Ian J. Glasspool, Morgan F. Schaller, Maria Dunlavey, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Nathan Smith, and Alan H. Turner Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom; Department of Stratigraphy, Geological Survey of ...

Software designers and software users have different views of software. Designers see all the parts that make up a system, and which are usually hidden from the users, who only see the interface. Conventional usability evaluation methods strive for objectivity in their measurement of user/system interaction, yet it is often the subjective experience of using a system which is important. Whitesi...

Epigenetics is the study of mitotically heritable, but reversible, changes in gene expression brought about principally through alterations in DNA methylation and chromatin structure. The comprehensive review by Mastroeni et al. (Mastroeni, D., Grover, A., Delvaux, E., Whiteside, C., Coleman, P., Rogers, J., 2010. Epigenetic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol. Aging, doi:10.1016/j.neu...

Increasingly, people communicate and build networks using online social interaction. According to Packard Bylund (2017), the advances in technology have influenced communication processes organizations leading improved marketing introduction of innovations. There is also evidence growing use media among entrepreneurs (Nambisan, Wright, & Feldman, 2019; Olanrewaju, Hossain, Whiteside, Mercie...