On behalf of the editorial board, I would like to thank all our reviewers for their effort and dedication. As has already become customary, at beginning each year we recognize sustained outstanding review contrib...

The goal of this analysis is to apply the Systemic Functional Linguistics theory (SFL) analyze social distance and visual sign in context Vietnamese art decoration. Based on concept semiotics, between interactants analyzed through a register description tenor system within situation. From point view, applies five lines human thought based Bogardus divided into motivational relevancies, includin...

John Butcher originally took up Numerical Analysis as a hobby after hearing a talk by Merson in 1957 while he was completing a Ph.D in Physics on Cosmic Rays. Whether this was a great loss to Physics it is of course impossible to determine but it was certainly of enormous beneet to Numerical Analysis and the eld of the numerical solution of ordinary diierential equations in particular. Since th...

Lord Amulree was unique amongst UK geriatricians in having a 'wide angled' view of the care of elderly people. This resulted from his work at the Ministry of Health, his clinical commitments and his position in the House of Lords, which enabled him to bring the problems of old age, elderly people and infirmity before a much wider audience. It can be argued that his joint Parliamentary Presentat...

The retirement of Dr Nigel Allan from the Wellcome Library after twenty-six years as Curator of the Oriental Collections marks the end of an era. In 2004, a very successful exhibition of Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library’s collections, entitled ‘Asia: Body, Mind, Spirit’, was curated by Nigel Allan and a small team of assistants from other major London institutions including Asia House ...