M any previous presidential addresses of ASTS and the Transplantation Society have been concerned with various political and ethical issues facing the transplantation community and the public. My distinguished immediate predecessor stated last year in his Presidential Address that he had hoped to discuss the use of donor antigen to modulate allograft response, but he elected instead to delay th...

Efficient communication is the basis of an implementation of a parallel language on a distributed machine architecture. This article handles about the communication mechanism that is needed to support parallel graph rewriting in Concurrent Clean. The danger of deadlock is imminent at several levels of such a system. Communication problems and their solutions are closely related to memory manage...

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Methods and results Geneva prison (for men and women) has 300 beds and serves as a remand prison and for short and medium term sentences. One fifth of the prisoners are dependent on opiates at entry. For our study we cross checked prison medical records with medicolegal necropsv reports in the Canton of Geneva. During 1982-6, 102 sudden deaths among former prisoners were recorded, of which a la...

Intelligent Design Theory (ID) has been much maligned recently as Neo-Creationist pseudoscience. This paper looks briefly at the common arguments used against ID, including arguments from methodological naturalism (MN), falsifiability, productivity, and religious fundamentalism. Ultimately it goes on to explain why the theory could be beneficial to our society today and suggests a need for a me...