Let me first give expression to my very deep sense of the honour you have done me, in making me a Doctor of Laws of this great University, now in the hundredth year of its activity for higher education and research in Northern Ireland. You may be assured that I value very highly indeed the distinction which you have thus conferred. You have honoured me further by asking me, as my first act as h...

Gentlemen, my period of office has now come to an end, and, before vacating this Chair in favour of the distinguished surgeon whom you have elected as my successor, I desire to express to you, as I did when you elected me, my most sincere and grateful thanks for the honour you did me in electing me your President. I would also like to thank the members of the Society for the kind consideration ...

A great number of abstracts has been submitted and the Paper Selection Committee, chaired by Dr. Peter Stenvinkel, has worked hard to choose the best abstracts for presentation as oral communications or posters. Compared with previous ERA-EDTA congresses, the number of oral communications will be increased; furthermore morning and afternoon poster sessions will take place without any other para...

Gentlemen,?My first duty is the pleasant one of thanking you very heartily for the honour you did me this time last year in electing me your President. It is not an easy task to fill worthily the Chair which has been occupied by so many distinguished obstetricians ; and I feel this the more because we are just entering upon the fiftieth session of this Society, and if we follow the many precede...

Nishimura (2003) first pointed out that in Japanese loanwords, voiced geminates devoice optionally when they co-occur with another voiced obstruent i.e. when they violate OCP(voice) (e.g. /baggu/ → [bakku] ‘bag’). This devoicing of geminates has been used to make several theoretical claims in the recent phonological literature. However, these claims have so far largely been based on intuition-b...

Two very special days in the life and history of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, are nearing conclusion. At the end of such a Bicentenary Scientific Meeting, it may seem that "all has been said". Indeed the best of modem medicine has been presented by past and present members of staff and by our distinguished guests. The audience has been informed, educated and entertained by the excellen...

as you probably know, in collaboration with Professor Giovanni Nigro and the MSM Advisory Board, we are organising here in Pisa, 28-30 of April 2011, the X International Congress of the Mediterranean Society of Myology (MSM2011). Following the previous editions of MSM meetings, the aim of this event is to address some of the more actual aspects in the management of muscle diseases. Genetic and ...

I am grateful to my fellow Directors on the Board and the members of the Management Committee for their support. I would also like to extend a special thanks to each and every shareholder of BHEL, whose trust and confidence have been the motivating force in all our endeavours. I thank all our customers and business associates in India and abroad for their unstinted loyalty and steadfast patrona...