To the Editor of the " Indian Medical Gazette." Silt, -My remarks 011 the above subject, to which Dr. Daniels takes exception in your November issue, did not refer to his own! valuable papers, but to private conversations with Mr. Hutchinson and others. I had noted that Dr. Daniels' statements referred to the aboriginal Fijians only. My septicism applied to tho moro sweeping statement that syph...

The Generalized ID/LP (GIDLP) grammar formalism (Daniels and Meurers 2004a,b; Daniels 2005) was developed to serve as a processing backbone for linearization-HPSG grammars, separating the declaration of the recursive constituent structure from the declaration of word order domains. This paper shows that the key aspects of this formalism – the ability for grammar writers to explicitly declare wo...

It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to catch the ‘feel’ of an ancient city. What we see is either a ruin or a shadow overlain by centuries of subsequent habitation. Nothing can be deader than the models or reconstructions of ancient buildings and districts: they may serve to recreate the formal interactions of the architects but they mislead badly in recreating the living reality within a livi...

Where does the aspiration to retard human ageing fit in the 'big picture' of medical necessities and the requirements of just healthcare? Is there a duty to retard human ageing? And if so, how much should we invest in the basic science that studies the biology of ageing and could lead to interventions that modify the biological processes of human ageing? I consider two prominent accounts of equ...

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Norman Haire was a physician who advocated for eugenics [4], which is the betterment of human population by promoting positive traits, and birth control [5] rights in the twentieth century in both Australia and the UK. In the UK, Haire joined the Malthusian League, a contraception [6] advocacy organization [7], and helped the League open the first physiciansupervised birth control [5] clinic, c...