Generally, a search usually isn’t commenced until a boat is overdue for more than 24hours. Fortunately for the passengers and crew of the fishing boat “COUGAR”, which sunk 13°C (56°F) water, 35 miles off the coast of Oregon in September 1998, the absence of a normally punctilious individual, Capt Liddell, from a meeting raised the alarm and triggered the search. He, along with five others, was ...

I t is our sad duty to announce the passing of Prof. Peter T. Macklem to the readers of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) and the members of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Peter Macklem passed away suddenly at home on Friday February 11, 2011, at the age of 79 years. His passing is an immense loss to the ERS and to the whole respiratory community, for which he was one of the main ...

I HE late afternoon of 19th July saw the arrival of two weary, hungry travellers at Oxford station. They commented sadly but without bitterness on the fact that whatever strides English railways have made within the last few decades, Sundav travelling in that country has remained very much in statui qpio. The gloom that had settled down on the spirits of the jaded travellers was niot at all all...

The management of advanced NSCLC remains a daunting challenge; however, new tools are available for treating this malignancy, and continued progress is likely. The future is bright, with a myriad of opportunities to exploit our ever-expanding knowledge of tumor biology. What is perhaps most needed, however, is development of new methods to prevent children and young adults from ever taking up t...

The lessons learned from the specifically ”targeted” treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) using imatinib (Gleevec) are now being applied with sometimes dramatic success in a variety of other tumors in which critical driving mutations have been identified, including some, such as malignant melanoma and lung cancer, that are notoriously resistant to other treatments. Sadly, b...

We would like to admit that if we were purists, it would prove to be a difficult task to choose between the terms “epidemic” and “hyperendemic” to describe the current alarming situation of increased incidence as well as the prevalence of superficial dermatophytosis in India. For both terms, it would be essential to have comparative epidemiological data of the past and the present, and sadly, w...

Article history: Available online 25 July 2008 This is the author’s reply to three very different reviews of Mind As Machine: A history of Cognitive Science (Vols 1–2). Two of the reviews, written by Paul Thagard and Jerry Feldman, engage with the book seriously. The third, by Noam Chomsky, does not. It is a sadly unscholarly piece, guaranteed to mislead its readers about both the tone and the ...

storage and viability of spermatozoa. erythrocytes, skin, cornea and endocrine glands. However, the basic principle of arresting the processes of aging and degeneration by anabiosis forms a main theme of the volume. The chapter on the revival of mammals from below zero temperatures is quite well done. The last chapter on the effects of subzero temperatures on animal cells and tissues is sadly q...

U.S. data center energy consumption is expected to double every 5 years, as shown in Fig. 1, at a huge cost both financially and to the environment. Microsoft itself launched two new mega-data centers last year, in Dublin and in Chicago. Sadly, much of the power consumed by these data centers is wasted. As documented in a recent Google study, [2], servers are only busy 20-30% of the time on ave...

by gest on Jauary 5, 2016 ht://jam ia.oxfournals.org/ D ow nladed from As important informatics interventions, clinical reminders (CRs) translate emerging knowledge into accessible advice at the point-of-care. In a timely fashion, CRs prompt clinicians to take specific actions that can improve or optimize patient care. To ensure that CRs achieve their desired impact, systems must deliver CRs to...