pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

A substantial part of actual practical software engineering (SE) work is performed in a chaotic way according to the famous SEI classification. This paper deals with chaotic projects which nevertheless succeed, labeling them "heroic" projects. Example scenarios from industrial practice explain why any serious amount of development work will always be heroic. A first-aid approach to quality assu...

The paper investigates the application of Halliday’s theory of transitivity in the construction of personality. The essay aims to identify and explain how the main character’s personality is portrayed and represented through language used in Hoa Pham’s “Heroic Mother”. The findings hope to prove that linguistic choices in transitivity play an important role in building up the main character of ...