Volume 19, Number 3256 257 Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:257–268 B arry Cooper (Figure 1) was born on January 22, 1945, in Louisville, Kentucky, and that is where he grew up. His parents had 4 sons, and Barry was the second. One of Barry’s brothers also became a physician, and the other two brothers became lawyers. After graduating first in his high school class, Barry Cooper went to Frankl...

While writing a book on paraphilias, the author made a thorough search of early references to paraphilias in literature, especially the Bible. Surprisingly just one published paper was available in the literature having any discussion on the references of paraphilia in the Bible, and that too was in French. [Bieder J. The polymorphous sexual deviant: a reading of Freud and the Bible. Ann Med Ps...

An interactive program is described for calculating the second virial coefficient contribution to the thermodynamic nonideality of solutions of rigid macromolecules based on their triaxial dimensions. The FORTRAN-77 program, available in precompiled form for the PC, is based on theory for the covolume of triaxial ellipsoid particles [Rallison, J. M., and S.E Harding. (1985). J. Colloid Interfac...

OBJECTIVE To study the etiology, clinical presentation and outcome of infantile onset diabetes mellitus (IODM). DESIGN Descriptive cohort study. Retrospective study from 1999-2007 and prospective from 2008-2012. SETTING The diabetic clinic at a Pediatric tertiary care referral institute in Chennai. METHODS All infants diagnosed to have diabetes at less than one year of age were studied. S...

Povzetek. V prispevku se ukvarjamo s povezavo med poslovnimi modeli, informacijsko tehnologijo (IT) in informacijskim sistemom (IS) podjetja. Govorimo o tem, da je pojem poslovni model v dosedanji literaturi slabo in nejasno razumljen, saj se raziskovalci lotevajo problema neenotno in brez upoštevanja dognanj drugih. Prikazujemo razlage avtorjev, ki uporabljajo pojem poslovni model za različne ...

This special issue of NeuroRehabilitation provides a comprehensive overview of vestibular rehabilitation therapy in treatment of balance disorders. The first routine use of vestibular rehabilitation exercises was described more than sixty years ago by Cooksey (Proc. Roy. Soc Med, 39 (1946) 273–278) to alleviate vertigo after surgical labyrinthectomyor concussive (closed head) injuries. This ori...

Neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) can be transient (TNDM) or permanent (PNDM). Data on NDM from the Gulf region are limited to few studies on PNDM.The objective of this study was to describe the genetic and clinical spectrum of NDM and estimate its incidence in AbuDhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirate (UAE). Patients were identified from the pediatric diabetes clinics and sequencing of known...