20 IEEE Control Systems Magazine The IEEE Control Systems Society’s (CSS’s) Technical Committee on Control Education strives to bring control system concepts and technologies to the awareness of high school and middle school students and teachers. Control is used in many common devices and systems, such as computer hard drives, VCRs, automobiles, and aircraft but is usually hidden from view. Th...

Cemaluddin Muhammed b. Tahir Ali al-Fattani (d. 986/1578) who has titled as Melikü’l-muhaddisîn lived in the Indian Subcontinent during a period when Mughal State ruled. . Baburs did not have great roblems terms of sovereignty lands they were power. One important names this time period, where many scholars raised, is al-Fattānī. After he benefited from such Shaykh al-Nākūrī (d.?), Burhān al-Din...

Public museums are a relatively new invention. However, the passion for collecting things, and setting them aside as treasured objects, has a long tradition. From the sixteenth century, in many European palaces and aristocratic residences, cupboards and whole rooms were set aside to house the particular collections of princes and noblemen. The earliest of these "cabinets of wonders", as they we...

D. P. WALKER, Unclean spirits. Possession and exorcism in France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, London, Scolar Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. 116, £9.95. Professor Walker's exact and concise book emerging from his Northcliffe Lectures at London University in 1979 investigates demoniacal possession in theory and practice in France and England chiefly in the late sixtee...

TO THE EDITOR—Hospitals in the Indian subcontinent have reported very high antimicrobial resistance rates. India, being the most populated country in the region, can play a significant role in tackling antimicrobial resistance initiatives. The Indian medical community has always been responsive to emergent public health problems. Unfortunately, antimicrobial resistance has not been considered a...

PAINTINGS about medical history fall into several categories: the celebration of a discovery; the representation of current medical practice, medical teaching, or visiting dignitaries; and the depiction of a calamity. An example in the celebratory category is the depiction by French artist Jean Andre Rixens (1846–1924; Le Jubilé de Pasteur) of Louis Pasteur being honored at the Sorbonne. Americ...

© 2006 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada Can J Rural Med 2006; 11 (4) O nce upon a time there was a little farming village in the valley, not far from a castle on the hill. The people in the village liked to help each other. The local healers were considered a part of their village “family.” One day, as medical knowledge and technology developed, they all decided that they could best help t...

one of the most important tekyes in iran and one of the most important islamic buildings in kermanshah province is the mo’aven-ol molk tekyeh. this building is located in historical context (barzeh damagh district) and related to the late qajar period. based on the present situation, the space of this tekye has been formed of four parts: courtyard entrance, hoseiniyeh, zainabiyeh and abbasiyeh....

Prakash Adhikari (54), a hero of mountain rescue, passed away on October 23, 2020, in Kathmandu, Nepal, from COVID-19 pneumonia. He worked tirelessly as the executive director Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA), mostly behind scenes, to ensure safety people mountains not only trekkers and climbers, but especially disadvantaged groups including porters other trekking staff, pilgrims, seasonal wo...