standing a specialized field in relation to biological science as a whole. The illustrations are profuse and as diversified as the text, from bacteria to the Australian ant-eater, from Gargantua to the Grand Canyon, and from Venus de Medici to scorbutic guinea-pigs. The author has set himself a Herculean task, and it is inevitable that errors of interpretation and of fact occur. To cite an exam...

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

We develop a perturbation theory for the Benjamin–Ono (BO) equation. This perturbation theory is based on the inverse scattering transform for the BO equation, which was originally developed by Fokas and Ablowitz and recently refined by Kaup and Matsuno. We find the expressions for the variations of the scattering data with respect to the potential, as well as the dual expression for the variat...

BENJAMIN FREEDMAN, un des plus grands bioéthiciens du Canada et universitaire reconnu sur la scène internationale, est mort le 20 mars 1997. Professeur de médecine à l’Université McGill de Montréal, Freedman a beaucoup contribué au domaine de la bioéthique, où il a fait notamment des travaux fondamentaux sur le consentement éclairé et la compétence. Dans le domaine de l’éthique de la recherche,...

In his paper, "Benjamin, Agamben, and the Paradox of Translation," Paolo Bartoloni offers a theoretical discourse on translation that goes beyond the traditional precincts of linguistics and literary theory as well as the disciplines of cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Bartoloni argues that more recently, the discourse on translation has begun to incorporate epistemological concerns, d...

Considered here is a model equation put forward by Benjamin that governs approximately the evolution of waves on the interface of a two-uid system in which surface tension eeects cannot be ignored. Our principal focus is the traveling-wave solutions called solitary waves, and three aspects will be investigated. A constructive proof of the existence of these waves together with a proof of their ...

ERIC T. CARLSON, JEFFREY L. WOLLOCK, and PATRICIA S. NOEL (editors), Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the mind, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1981, 4to, pp. xix, 735, $15.00. Eric T. Carlson, is well known for his studies in the history of psychiatry. With various associates Patricia Noel, Meribeth Simpson, and Jeffrey Wollock he has produced many valuable studies on Benjamin Rush (1...