Some of the leading models and frameworks about Excellence from the last 25 years are presented and discussed: Peters and Waterman’s eight excellence attributes (1982), Peters and Austin’s simplified excellence model (1985), Lists of Best Practices, Xerox Excellence Models (1990, 2002), the European Excellence Model (1992) and two different but overlapping “4P Models” (1999, 2004). At the end o...

Insights into diterpene cyclization from the structure of the bifunctional abietadiene synthase from Abies grandis* Ke Zhou, Yang Gao, Julie A. Hoy, Francis M. Mann, Richard B. Honzatko and Reuben J. Peters From the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA Running title: Structure of abietadiene synthase Address correspondence to: Re...

Dr Henry (Harry) Peters graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1840 and returned to practise with his father in the Village of Gagetown on New Brunswick’s Saint John River. Dr Peters’ general practice covered a 50-mile radius from Gagetown and when he died suddenly at age 48, central New Brunswick went into mourning. We also know from the story that is about to unfold that he...

A 5-week-old male presented with Peters' anomaly. Corneal transplantation was deferred and the patient underwent an optical sector iridectomy in his better eye with central leukoma and iridocorneal adhesions. At six months following surgery, there was a decrease in corneal opacity. The most recent ophthalmic examination was performed at age 42 months. The cornea was considerably clearer, and th...

Peters' plus syndrome is a rare but clinically recognizable autosomal recessive ocular genetic syndrome. Diagnosis during the fetal life is challenging due to the presence of nonspecific findings such as ventriculomegaly in the growth-retarded fetuses. We report the first case of fetal Peters' plus syndrome from India, where fetal ultrasound and the family history were helpful in providing a cl...

The Peters family is a Yale family, and Jack Peters' branch of the family extended to five generations at Yale when my third daughter, Barbara, received her M.D. degree, with honors, in 1979. We trace our origins back to when Andrew Peters came to America from England in 1702 and settled in Andover, Massachusetts. Our family's Yale connection goes back to Jack's grandfather, Thomas McClure Pete...

Molecular phylogenetic analyses of southern African lacertid lizards (Eremiadini) using mitochondrial and nuclear markers revealed two examples of generic assignments incompatible with monophyletic clades. Australolacerta Arnold 1989, a genus endemic to South Africa and to which two isolated species have been referred, is paraphyletic at the generic level. In addition, the species Ichnotropis s...

Vol. XLIX (February 2012), 1 –14 *Ashwin Aravindakshan is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: aaravind@ ucdavis.edu), and Prasad A. Naik is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. Kay Peters is a postdoctoral student, Center for Interactive Marketing and Media Management, Institute for Marketing, University of Mu...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of classic galactosemia that presented with a rare ocular finding, Peters' anomaly. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A neonate, born to first-degree healthy cousins, presented with persistent vomiting, failure to thrive, lethargy, and jaundice. Corneal opacity was noticed in the left eye. Hydration and empiric antibiotics were started after collection of the r...