In the late-twentieth century in the United States, Catherine DeAngelis was a pediatric physician, researcher, and editor of multiple medical journals. During her time with the Journal of the American Medical Association [2], DeAngelis became the journal?s first female editor. At Johns Hopkins University [3] in Baltimore, Maryland, she studied how physician-nurse interactions affected patient c...

Together with other Bristolians, most of whom are now out of uniform, I have been asked to record a few of my personal experiences while in the Army. Where should one begin ? The events of the last few years seem already far away. Like so many, I joined the forces and saw something of the world. Never have so many travelled so much and often, apparently, so much at random. Events crowd each oth...

During vertebrate development, centrally projecting sensory axons of the dorsal root ganglia neurons first reach the embryonic spinal cord at the dorsolateral margin. Instead of immediately projecting into the grey matter, they bifurcate and extend rostrally and caudally to establish the longitudinal dorsal funiculus during a stereotyped waiting period of approximately 48 h. Collateral fibres t...

Henk Spekreijse suffered a fatal heart attack in Amsterdam on 20 October 2006. From 1991 to 2004 Henk was chairman of the board and editor in chief of Vision Research. Under his guidance the journal flourished and expanded to 28 issues per year. He worked with Elsevier to introduce and fund the pre-ARVO special symposia and initiated the publication of special issues of the journal, which bring...

Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception [3] and birth limiting in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Goldman identified as an anarchist, which she explained as being part of an ideology in which people use violence to provoke or demand social and political change. Goldman was involved ...

The Royal Society Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting Quantumcoherent energy transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies was one of the last scientific meetings attended by Bob Silbey, who died on 27 October 2011. As always, he brought his combination of erudition, clear thinking, wit and general good humour to Chicheley Hall. Here, a mixed group of experimentalists ...

It is now well established that para-aminobenzoic acid inhibits the action of sulfonamides on bacteria in vitro and in vivo .(Rubbo and Gillespie, 1940; Selbie, 1940; Woods, 1940). Wiedling (1941) found that para-aminobenzoic acid produced an inhibition of the effect of sulfanilamide, sulfapyridine and sulfathiazole on the fresh water diatom Nitzschia palea var. debilis. Experiments published b...