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books by Gay Prieto and Gómez Orbaneja, since they meant so much in my time. I know they were followed by other prestigious dermatologists who also produced excellent publications but including these in the painting would have overextended the dimensions and motivation of the work. A notebook (11) contains the imaginary names of those who do not feature in the painting but who could be consider...

It is with a heavy heart that I serve as guest editor of this commemorative issue of Ad Hoc Sensors & Wireless Networks. My father founded this journal 10 years ago in the field that he loved and contributed most to. Research was his passion, and he conveyed this passion to me throughout his life. We worked in different fields of computer science, mine being computer vision, but always looked f...

Nigel Kalton at his sixtieth birthday conference. Nigel Kalton was born June 20, 1946, in Bromley, England. The name Kalton is an anglicized form of the original German family name, Kaltenbach, which is actually the name which appears on Nigel’s birth certificate. He was the son of Gordon and Stella Kalton. Nigel was educated at Dulwich College, where he excelled at both mathematics and chess. ...

Claude Shannon died on 24 February 2001 of the after-effects of Alzheimer disease. With him, one of the greatest scientific minds of the century, and even of all times, disappears. His work exercised a deep influence, although often misknown, in the communication techniques hence in the world where we are living, as well as in the thoughts of the XX century. I shall try, after having evoked the...

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It is already more than two years ago, on July 8, 1986, that our colleague Andrew Dravnieks passed away of a heart attack at his home in Park Forrest, Illinois. He was born in Leningrad (Petersburg) of Latvian parents on October 3, 1912. After the last war, he emigrated to America with his wife Erika and his two children Dzintar and Sarma. He received his Master's degree in chemical engineering...

Dr. Charles Vacanti can be considered to be some of the "Stem cells of tissue engineering", as it has been put once by Dr. Peter Johnson, the former president of the Tissue Engineering Society International. They made some of the seminal observations that have enabled many people worldwide to develop many types of tissues. A world-renowned leader in tissue engineering, Dr. Charles A. Vacanti is...

the loss of the papilla can lead to cosmetic deformities, phonetic problems and lateral food impaction. several reasons con-tribute to the loss of interdental papillae and the establishment of “black triangles” between teeth. in 1996, han and takei proposed a novel approach based on the use of a semi-lunar incision placed in the alveolar mucosa of the interdental area. the present case report, ...