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Gastric function
No full textCopyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, LtdThis chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Gastric Motility in Diabetes Management of Gastroparesis Associated with Gastrointestinal Symptoms Gastric Secretion in Diabetes Gastric Blood Supply in Diabetes References.Michael Horowitz, Karen L. Jones, Louis M. A. Akkermans, Melvin Samso
Interview with Norman H. Horowitz
No full textInterview, 1984, with Norman Horowitz, professor of biology emeritus and former chairman of the Biology Division (1977-1980), who arrived at Caltech as a graduate student in 1936. Recollections of Thomas Hunt Morgan; embryologist Albert Tyler, with whom he did his PhD; Caltech's marine biological station at Corona del Mar. Comments on Biology Division in the late 1930s: Calvin Bridges on Drosophila salivary chromosomes; Frits Went and James Bonner in plant physiology; Henry Borsook on thermodynamics of biological compounds. Importance of genetics at Caltech. NRC fellowship, 1939, at Stanford and meeting George W. Beadle; recollections of Beadle, and Beadle's 1941 talk at Caltech on his and Edward Tatum's work on Neurospora. Horowitz returns to Stanford as postdoc in Beadle and Tatum's lab, compiling evidence for the "one gene, one enzyme" theory. Returns to Caltech in 1946 as senior research fellow with Beadle, who came as division chairman. Instrumental in getting Max Delbrück back to Caltech from Vanderbilt University. Lee DuBridge arrives as Caltech's president in 1946. 1954 work with Boris Ephrussi on Drosophila tyrosinase in Paris. Becomes chief of bioscience section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1965. Comments on history of Mars observations and ideas about microbial life on Mars at time of first Viking (Mars) launch, 1975. Designs Viking instruments with George Hobby and Jerry Hubbard. Comments on Roy Cameron's search for bacteria in dry valleys of Antarctica and on spacecraft sterilization. Later work with Neurospora, Aspergillus, and Penicillium on water and iron requirements. Comments on Robert Sinsheimer, his predecessor as Biology Division chairman, and on presidencies of DuBridge, Harold Brown, and Marvin L. Goldberger. Comments on current trends in Biology Division, and on the book he is writing about the search for life on Mars, and his conviction that Earth is the only place in the solar system that supports life
A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society
No full textCan a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these obstacles, and he describes institutions that offer constitution makers the best chance for a democratic future.South Africa is generally considered an isolated case, a country unlike any other. Drawing on his extensive experience of racially and ethnically divided societies, however, Horowitz brings South Africa back into African and comparative politics. Experience gained in Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and other divided societies around the world is relevant because, as South Africa leaves apartheid behind, it will still confront problems of pluralism: racial, ethnic, and ideological. Countries like South Africa, Horowitz argues, must develop institutions capable of coping with such divisions.Reviewing an array of constitutional proposals for South Africa - group rights, consociation, partition, binationalism, and an enhanced role for the judiciary - Horowitz shows that most are inappropriate for the country's problems, or else run afoul of some major ideological taboo. Institutions that are both apt and acceptable do exist, however. These are premised on the need to create incentives for accommodation across group lines. In the final chapter, Horowitz makes a major contribution to the theory of democratization as he considers how commitments to democracy might be extracted even from political groups with undemocratic objectives.Ranging skillfully across studies of social distance and stereotypes, electoral and party systems, constitutions and judiciaries, conflict and accommodation, and negotiation and democratization, Horowitz displays a broad comparative vision. His innovative study will change the way theorists and practitioners approach the task of making democracy work in difficult conditions
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from David L. Meckler and Abraham Horowitz to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing about hardship in existence of Yeshivoth and other traditional institutions, and seeking or help
Postprandial hypotension is associated with more rapid gastric emptying in healthy older individuals
No full textAbstract not availableLaurence G. Trahair, Michael Horowitz, Karen L. Jone
Postprandial hypotension: systematic review
No full textAbstract not available.Laurence G. Trahair, Michael Horowitz and Karen L. Jone
Dynamic time series binary choice
No full textThis paper considers dynamic time series binary choice models. It shows in a time series setting the validity of the dynamic probit likelihood procedure when lags of the dependent binary variable are used as regressors, and it establishes the asymptotic validity of Horowitz' smoothed maximum score estimation of dynamic binary choice models with lags of the dependent variable as regressors. The latent error is explicitly allowed to be correlated. It turns out that no long-run variance estimator is needed for the validity of the smoothed maximum score procedure in the dynamic time series framework. One novel aspect of this paper is a proof that weak dependence properties hold for dynamic binary choice models with correlated errorsbinary choice; near epoch dependence; asymptotic theory; smoothed maximum score
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from David L. Meckler and Abraham Horowitz to Mr. Ed Schreiber discussing about allocation of funds for Federated Council of Israel Institutions program and requesting for monetary funds, along with statement of income and expenses for previous year
Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
No full textBook Review of the Monograph: Horowitz, Donald L. (2013), Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (= Series: Problems of International Politics, 4), ISBN: 9781107641150, 342 page
Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
No full textBook Review of the Monograph: Horowitz, Donald L. (2013), Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (= Series: Problems of International Politics, 4), ISBN: 9781107641150, 342 page
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