Quality of Means, Quality of Life and Euthanasia

Editor\u27s note: This article is being published posthumously to set the record straight. It is published in response to misstatements by Richard McCormick in an article in America (March 14, 1992). This article, which had been accepted by America in July of 1987, was never published by them Father Connery\u27s clear, concise reasoning is even more important in light of the Pennsylvania Bishops\u27 statement on fluids, nutrition, and euthanasia

Notes on a paper of Mess

These notes are a companion to the article "Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature" by Geoffrey Mess, which was first written in 1990 but never published. Mess' paper will appear together with these notes in a forthcoming issue of Geometriae Dedicata.Comment: 26 page

Superulltramegalosesquipedalia

Recently, Jeff Grant of Hastings, New Zealand supplied the editor with the full 3641-letter name of the protein Bovine Glutamate Dehydrogenase, as constructed from the amino acid residue sequence shown in The Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (1973), Volume 5, Supplement 1, published by The National Biomedical Research Foundation. Although this word has been cited by the Guinness Book of Records since 1976 as the longest word known, it was never written out in full there, nor has it apparently been published anywhere else

Separability in Riemannian Manifolds

An outline of the basic Riemannian structures underlying the separation of variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of natural Hamiltonian systems.Comment: This paper was submitted in 2004 to the Royal Society and accepted for publication in a special volume dedicated to the 'State of the Art of the Separation of Variables'. However, this volume was never published due to death of the Editor, V. Kutznetso

'Hand in Hand' by Benjamin Cooke: a performing edition and commentary

Benjamin Cooke's Shakespearean glee 'Hand in Hand' (1777) although never published in his lifetime became popular in the 19th century through corrupt and highly 'edited' print versions. Andrew Pink was commissioned in 2005 to make a new scholarly edition of the work for a performance by 'Collegium Musicum of London'. Andrew has returned to the composer's autograph in the library of London's Royal College of Music to create this edition based (finally) on the composer's own intentions

Encouraging practitioners in infection prevention and control to publish: a cross-sectional survey

Aim: The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to determine the views of infection prevention and control practitioners (IPCPs) on publishing research. Methods: A convenience sample was obtained by approaching delegates at the 2015 Infection Prevention Society conference and data was captured via a hand-held electronic device. Findings: Of the 79 respondents most (83%) read Journal of Infection Prevention (JIP) and found it useful for informing their practice (72%). However, most (91%) had never published in JIP, and less than half (40%) published elsewhere. The main barrier to publication was not having work suitable for publication (38%). Support (37%), training in writing for publication (10%) and time (9%) were considered to be important facilitators in encouraging respondents to publish. Discussion: Strategies that support IPCPs in developing their writing skills may encourage more IPCPs to disseminate evidence to support best practice by publishing their work in peer reviewed journals

A small intruder. A Medieval marble winged lion from Ravello

An image of a 12th century marble winged lion was provocatively included among the slides accompanying a lecture by the author at a recent conference at the American Academy in Rome to illustrate Umberto Scerrato’s work on Islamic archaeology and art history in Italy. The lion, in fact, was never published by Scerrato, but it and a winged bull, both once featuring as ornaments on the “Moresque Fountain” in Ravello (originally from a medieval building most likely from Ravello itself), are the subject of this brief article. They are of undeniable Islamic taste