When asked to write a few notes about my spell in Burma, April and May 1942, I had to read again Field Marshal Sir William Slim's book, especially the first part of "Defeat into Victory", in order to refresh my memory with the dates and place names in Burma with which I was concerned. It is hard to believe that it took place 50 years ago and one gets no younger in body and mind.

Few painters have succeeded in representing a dramatic event on a large scale as successfully as Antoine Jean Gros in his painting " Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-stricken at Jaffa." This immense canvas (17 ft. 5 in. by 23 ft. 7 in.; 5.3 by 7.2 mi.) hangs in the Salle Daru of the Louvre, Paris. The event depicted took place during the Syrian Campaign in March 1799. Worried by the fear and loss ...

The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it, is a global collaboration of policy makers, researchers, and civil society, led by commissioners with a unique blend of political, academic, and advocacy experience. The focus of attention is on countries at all levels of in...

Mechanosensory hair cells of the cochlea must serve as both transducers and presynaptic terminals, precisely releasing neurotransmitter to encode acoustic signals for the postsynaptic afferent neuron. Remarkably, each inner hair cell serves as the sole input for 10-30 individual afferent neurons, which requires extraordinary precision and reliability from the synaptic ribbons that marshal vesic...

We have developed a system for distributed computing called MoBiDiCK. This system can be used to marshal a large number of processors across the Internet in order to have them collaborate on a single computation. CGI programs on the volunteer processors perform the computations. These utilize a message-passing API and control/synchronization formalism we have developed that uses the HTTP standa...

1 Department of Psychoimmunology, National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramón de la Fuente”, Calzada México-Xochimilco 101, Colonia San Lorenzo Huipulco, Tlalpan, 14370 Mexico City, DF, Mexico 2 Research Group Immunophysiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Philipps University, 35037 Marburg, Germany 3 Instituto de Inmunologı́a, Facultad de CienciasMédicas, UniversidadNacional de Rosa...

In this issue of Pediatrics Schumacher et al provide an analysis of the resource domains needed to implement the Pediatrics Milestones into residency training. While noting the promise of Pediatrics Milestones “for developing a valid . . . way to track residents’ development and provide a roadmap for their learning,” the authors question the ability of training programs to marshal necessary res...

Hospital and health care managers and administrators will in future be measured against mandatory core standards and judged on outcomes, with little place to hide and less room to shift responsibility, the country's new standards certification chief warned last month. Dr Carol Marshal, Director of the Office of Healthcare Standards Compliance (OHSC), in the national Department of Health has the...