Readers Digest contains more than abridged stories. The “My Most Unforgettable Character” feature articles highlight people who affected others in a most positive manner. Computer graphics has a wonderful cast of unforgettable characters who founded the eld in the 1960s and 1970s. John Staudhammer, who died in February 2017, is one of those unforgettable characters. He profoundly in uenced comp...

In the essential area of Network Management we have dealt with the subject of the scheduler reaction and adjustment in a dynamic resource environment. Different scheduling models from various areas of Computer Networks (wired and wireless) are presented. Better performance for all the cases via simulation is provided. Many methods of packets? service have been developed, associated with the bor...

During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...

The book begins with John Henry Biggart’s memories from his personal papers, meticulously dissected by his son, Denis (himself a Consultant Pathologist and academic in Queen’s University). For those interested in social history there are titbits of the times in which he lived from his birth in Belfast in 1905, to his school days, University days (with the remarkable pranks of yesteryear) to the...

School. Joining the Bristol Medical School in 1891, he qualified, in 1896, and following this held several resident appointments at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He went into partnership with the late Dr. Irwin at Almondsbury, and, succeeding him, remained there in active practice until his death. MacWatters was of the best type of general practitioner, enthusiastic and thorough in his work, suc...

John Lisman had a passionate connection with life, art and science. He lived his life till the end with enthusiasm and energy, passing away on October 20, 2017. John said many times that he did not understand how people could retire from science—he personally would not know how to live without intellectually challenging himself every day. When he found out that he had cancer, and that his expec...

The impact of structural adjustment programme on the economic situation in many African countries can not be overemphasised. Over more than a decade of implementing neo-liberal economic policies by the Bretton Woods institution it is of great importance to document the lessons learnt. This paper explains how the expected effect of structural adjustment policies produced unintended effects which...