How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
The effects of ecological history are frequently ignored in attempts to predict community responses to environmental change. In this study, we explored the, possibility that ecological history can cause differences in community responses to perturbation u
This article describes the evolution or revolution in the management of erectile dysfunction over the centuries. In recent history there has been a rapid movement away from a predominant role for the specialist towards the primary care physician. The phys
This paper covers the history since ancient times of spins bifida (SB) and its main associated conditions, viz., hydrocephalus, paraplegia and incontinence. Particular stress has been placed on the ancient authors who recognised these conditions. The arti
The life-history patterns of fish and invertebrate species are complex. But much of this complexity can be captured in simple diagrams of coastal transects, where juveniles usually occur in larger numbers in shallow waters, while adults generally inhabit
The author, basing on development of psychiatry during XIXth and XXth centuries, shows epistemologic reflexion requires a knowledge of its history. (C) 2001 editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.
The goal of this study is to investigate if the wavelet transform can be used to accurately edit a fatigue history. Comparisons of fatigue damage between contaminated and denoised signals for the SAE's three strain histories and one real profile obtained
Herbert Michael Moran was born on 29 April 1885 in Sydney and died on 20 November 1945. I never had the good fortune to meet him but in 1946, when I was a fourth year medical student in Brisbane, I purchased a small brown-coloured book called Beyond the H
Purpose: We determined the prevalence of positive family history of nocturnal enuresis in relation to response to desmopressin. Materials and Methods: A total of 328 children with nocturnal enuresis and 53 normal children were interviewed to determine the
Using a reformulation of conventional results in decoherence theory, a condition is proposed for singling out a distinguished class of histories which includes those which use the pointer basis of Zurek.
Objectives-To estimate the current prevalence of family history and associated risk of prevalent colorectal cancer among middle aged and older British adults. Methods-Cross sectional analysis of colorectal cancer and self reported family history based on
Alexandre Koyre was one of the most prominent historians of science of the twentieth century. The standard interpretation of Koyre is that he falls squarely within the internalist camp of historians of science-that he focuses on the history of the ideas t
Objective-To assess the family history of diabetes in type 2 black South African diabetics with emphasis on the parental phenotype. Design-Prospective case-control study in which family histories were obtained from patients. Setting-Diabetic clinic of a p
The history of Italian parasitology can be subdivided into two periods: pre-Redi and post-Redi. The first period includes the contributions to parasitology by savants who operated during the Roman, medieval and Renaissance eras; the second period started
The history of synoviorthesis and recent studies have shown that it is a safe procedure and that the results are similar to those seen following open surgical and arthroscopic synovectomy. If the safety of this procedure is definitively proven in long-ter
PURPOSE: Although important for the diagnosis of familial clustering of colorectal cancer and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, the accuracy of familial cancer history assessment in the office setting has been questioned. Furthermore, there are f