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The first fundamental problem of the theory of elasticity is considered for a symmetric lune, when a symmetrically distributed normal load is specified on its boundary, and there are no tangential stresses. The problem is formulated and solved without preliminary reduction to the basic biharmonic problem. The proposed version and solution are based on the combined method of Fourier integrals and analysis of the Carleman problem /1, 2/. The problem of the stress state in a circular lune acted upon along the segments of its side surface by a uniform, normal compressive force was considered earlier in /3/, where the first fundamental problem of the theory of elasticity for a lune was reduced to the corresponding biharmonic problem.

The actual calendars of Indo-European peoples do show intercalary additions to the lunar year but these take the form of intercalary months. Frazer was aware of this, saying that 'there are grounds for thinking that at a very early time the Aryan peoples sought to correct their lunar year, not by inserting twelve supplementary days every year, but by allowing .the annual deficiency to accumulate for several years and then supplying it by a whole intercalary month.' 2 He expressed his puzzlement over this in connection with the Celts of Gaul, commenting: 'Why they abandoned the simple and obvious expedient of annually intercalating twelve days, and adopted instead the more recondite system of intercalating a month of thirty days every two and a half years, is not plain.'3 The answer I have to offer is that the Indo-Europeans never did employ a twelve-day intercalary period but kept the months of the lunar year in line with the natural seasons by inserting intercalary months when required, and that the place of the twelve days in the calendar was not outside the lunar year but inside it. As I see it, the possibility of having a group of twelve days that stand in a functional relationship to the rest of the year arises when the month used in the calendar is not the synodic month of twenty-nine or thirty days but the shorter light month, the period of the moon's visibility. Ten years before Frazer published his remarks, W. H. Roscher had studied the matter of month length in connection with Greek weeks and festivals and had concluded that months of two different lengths-27-8 days and 29-30 days-were known in antiquity, but that the use of the short month of 27-8 days was the older.4 Frazer made no mention of this finding in his discussion of the twelve days, and yet the two ideas of the light month and a set of special days can be seen as complementary and I shall consider them together here. The longest period of the moon's visibility is twenty-eight days and the moon goes through its cycle from new moon, through full moon, to the last crescent of the waning moon in this time. As Plutarch expressed it, referring to the number twenty-eight: 'Such is the number of the moon's illuminations and in so many days does it revolve through its own cycle.'5 Between each pair of light months there is a gap which was called by the Romans the 'interlunium' or 'intermenstruum,' that is, the interval between the moons or the months.6 The treatment of this time of the dark of the moon

Summary: Overdose of carbamazepine (CBZ) can be fatal. We report the case of a patient with near-lethal toxicity due to delayed absorption of drug. A 36-year-old woman was admitted with coma, hypotension, and unusual movements. Carbamazepine (CBZ) level several hours later was 36 mg/L. Gastric lavage revealed no pill fragments, and activated charcoal was administered. CBZ level initially fell, reaching 28 mg/L 36 h after admission. Blood level then rose sharply, reaching 54 mg/L 64 h after admission. The pattern of rise suggested renewed absorption of drug. Vigorous cathartics were given, and further doses of charcoal were administered. Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred. Two hours later she grimaced to pain. Eight hours after the onset of diarrhea, she was awake. In CBZ overdose, activated charcoal therapy coupled with aggressive intestinal purging helps prevent continued absorption of drug, late exacerbation of symptoms, and potentially fatal outcome. RESUME lintoxication par la carbamazepine (CBZ) peut etre fatale. Les auteurs rapportent le cas une patiente ayant presente une intoxication presque fatale en raison d'une absorption differee du medicament. Une femme de 36 ans a ete admise dans un etat de coma avec hypotension et mouvements anormaux. Le taux sanguins de CBZ obtenu quelques heures plus tard etait de 36 mg/l. Le lavage gastrique ne permit pas de ramener de fragments de comprimes, et du charbon active fut administre. Lex taux sanguins de CBZ commencerent par chuter a 28 mg/l a la 36eme heure, puis monterent brutalement a 54 mg/l a la 64eme heure. Le profil elevation des taux suggerait existence lune nou-velle absorption. Une purge vigoureuse fut administree. 3 heures apres debut de la diarrhee, des mouvements pendulaires des yeux furent constates; deux heures plus tard, reaction de grimace a la douleur. 8 heures apres le debut de la diarrhee, la patiente etait reveillee. Dans intoxication par la CBZ, L'administration de charbon active associees a une purge intestinale energique previent la poursuite de absorption du medicament, de l'exacerbation des symptomes, et le deces eVentuel.

Our aim in this note is to analyse the differential difference equations underlying sieves of dimension κ > 1. A heuristic version of such an analysis together with some valuable numerical information was given by Iwaniec, van de Lune and te Riele [5] (see also te Riele [7]) and what we seek to do here, in effect, is to justify the conclusions of [5]. It has been shown elsewhere (in [2]) how to construct sieves of dimension κ > 1 on the basis of such information. In this connection we acknowledge also our indebtedness to the important thesis of Rawsthorne [6].

On the occasion of the twohundredth anniversary of F. W. Bessel’s birth, his method of heliometric observations for the determination of the Moon’s physical libration constants and of the reduction of these observations is presented.

Les conditions lunaires particulieres susceptibles de differer des conditions accessibles dans unlaboratoire terrestre, sont supposees etre les suivantes: – permanence d´une ambiance d´ultra-vide, permettant l'examen direct “in situ” des surfaces par tous les moyens optiques, electroniques, electriques, adaptables sur la Lune. – composition differente de l'atmosphere residuelle, et par suite, des couches adsorbees sur lessurfaces – existence d'un rayonnement particulier et de radiations. – temperature exterieure cycliquement variable – pesanteur reduite – absence d'une teneur ambiante en oxygene et en humidite suffisante pour faciliter les manipulations simples comportant des frottements secs; I'pelectrisation statique dans de telles conditions est egalement un facteur a considerer. Les consequences possibles de cet etat de choses sur I'adsorption superficielle, le frottement etl'usure des objets et des mecanismes sont envisages, certains modes de lubrification sont suggeres. Physico-chemical Surface Properties and Friction in Lunar Conditions. The specific points for which lunar conditions are assumed to differ from conditions which can be simulated in a laboratory on Earth are as follows: – permanent existence of an ultra-high vacuum environment, permitting direct examination of surfaces “in situ”, by all optical, electronic and electrical methods adapted to the Moon. – different composition of the residual atmosphere and also, therefore, of the adsorbed layers on the surfaces. – existence of a particular form of radiance and of radiations. – exterior temperature subject to cyclical variations. reduced gravity. – atmosphere devoid of both oxygen content and of sufficient humidity to allow simple manipulations producing dry friction; in these conditions, static electrification will also be a factor to be reckoned with. A study is made of the effects these conditions may have on surface adsorption, friction and the wear-and-tear of various objects and mechanisms; and some lubrication methods are suggested.

For a number of years, formula manipulation has been a prosperous member of the large family of computer applications. It has already facilitated the solution of problems too lengthy and time-consuming for the relatively unreliable human problem-solver. The reader who has not himself encountered such problems need only recall the horrendous exercises in formula manipulation performed by the astronomers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, e.g., as described in Delaunay’s “Theorie du mouvement de la lune,” or in E. W. Brown’s “Theory of the Motion of the Moon.” Their achievements are hardly surpassable by hand, and continue to challenge the capabilities of current systems.

The first meeting was held in the large Chemistry Theater of Sussex University, Falmer. It was called to order at 14:15 with the President, A. Dollfus in the chair.

A BOOK which seeks to throw light on terrestrial evolution from a study of the moon must possess considerable interest to both geologists and astronomers. But we may prophesy that this book will be more welcomed by geologists than by astronomers, or, at any rate, by mathematicians. For M. Puiseux, disregarding somewhat lightly the weighty dynamical reasons which have been brought forward by Kelvin and Sir George Darwin, among others, in favour of a solid interior to the earth, throws in his lot with those geologists who support the theory of a thin crust surrounding a liquid interior. He bases his argument partly upon purely terrestrial phenomena—and here we must frankly admit that we do not find his reasons convincing—and partly upon analogy from the moon. M. Puiseux points out many interesting points of resemblance between the general configuration of the earth and some of the principal features of the moon's surface; and his argument that the moon's surface, having suffered but slightly from the action of water, can throw light on a stage of development through which the earth has passed has much to recommend it. But we fail to follow him in the further arguments that he brings forward to prove that it is only the reaction of a liquid interior on a gradually thickening crust which can have produced the effects which are now to be seen on the moon's surface. La Terre et la Lune: Forme exterieure et Structure interne. By P. Puiseux. Pp. 176. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1908.) Price 9 francs.

Photometric properties of the lunar surface in visual and near-infrared light were studied using raw images obtained with UVVIS camera during the Clementine mission. The investigation focused on several specific regions on the lunar surface, each of which was observed by Clementine at a variety of different illumination and viewing geometries. Through these observations, the dependence of the surface brightness on the observation/illumination geometry was studied. It was shown that the disk component of this dependence, that is, the variations of brightness at constant phase angle, is different for different mare areas. The color of the lunar surface also changes with changing of the observation/illumination geometry, even if under constant phase angle. The Reiner Gamma formation displays unusual photometric properties. They are consistent with the surface being smoother than the typical mare regolith surface. The UVVIS images taken at the smallest phase angles were used to study the opposition spike, that is, the sharp increase of the surface brightness near the opposition. Steepness of the phase dependence of brightness varies over a wide range for different sites.

On .lune and .truly 1994, two cases of vivax wl,Blaria were consecutively diagnosed at the Yongsan Hospital, Chung-Ang University in Seoul. The first patient was a soldier sewing in western parts of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) while the second case was a resident of a village near DMZ. Neither patients had history of being abroad. Republic of Korea (ROK) has been free of malaria since the mid-1970s except for imported cases. The two ivfn malaria cases, together with an additional patient detected in 1993, occurred in relatively small areas near DMZ. This necessitated an epidemiologic surveillance. When medical records and blood smears in the areas were examined, no other cases were found. Of 7,723 mosquitoes collected by a black light trap for ho nights in June, 7,066 (91.5%) were Anopheles sinensis. In order to evaluate a significance of the recent malaria occurrence, a surveillance system should be operated in the areas. key words: Indigenous malaria, PEasmonium uivox, Korea

1 During 1980 the relation between the moon phases and 1187 cases of self-poisonings in Oslo was studied. 2 In contrast to a previous report from India no significant correlation was found between the full moon and self-poisoning. 3 The aetiology of self-poisonings in western countries is rather more complex than to be explained by speculative 'human tidal waves'.

Collaboration de l'universite d'Arizona et de l'observatoire et universite de Trieste pour des observations astronomiques et planetaires entre 400 et 1300 A

Hilbrecht and Kiiveler (1985) have presented the results of ‘possible’ variations of the Earth’s albedo which have been deduced from the ashen light of the Moon. The observations presented in the paper were made during the period of June 1972 to December 1973. While it is acknowledged that studies of the possible variations of the Earth’s albedo are an important part of investigations of climate variations, the approach adopted by Hilbrecht and Kiiveler (lot tit) and the results presented are not sufficiently accurate for this purpose. During the early part of this century a number of astronomers made estimates of the global mean albedo of the Earth using this approach (Hunt et al., 1985). In Table I we have summarised the values that were estimated during these previous studies. The wide variation in values of the Earth’s albedo would, at first, suggest a major climatic change! However, the differences between the individual results is a direct result of the difficulties in accurately interpreting the photometric observations as a consequence of the phase ventions of the total and local regions of the Moon. The variations of the brightness of the ashen light are shown in Figure 3 of Hilbrecht and Kiiveler (lop tit). There are differences of a factor of 6 in the observations during January, March 1973 and July 1973 (see Figure 1 of Hilbrecht and Kiiveler) which will drastically affect the statistical significance of the results. Furthermore, the error bars of

A search of the Moon for traces of sodium vapor similar to that found on Mercury was made with a multiprism spectroscope. The results were negative. Eine Untersuchung der Mondatmosphare auf Spuren von Natriumdampf, vergleichbar denen auf dem Merkur, wurde mit einem Multiprismen-Spektroskop durchgefuhrt. Das Ergebnis war negativ.

C. r. de : RUIZ DE ALARCON (H.), ANDREWS (J. R.), HASSIG (R.), trad., ed., Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, 406 p.| COE (M. D.), WHITAKER (G.), trad., ed., Aztec Sorcers in Seventeenth Century Mexico : The Treatise on Superstitions by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Publication no 7, Albany : State University of New York at Albany, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, 1982, 329 p

fluence: poetic modernity indeed involves as one of its components this interiorization of the fact of death in the attention paid to reality. Not only of death : of my death. The novelty of Baudelaire, in contrast to classical or romantic poetry in this respect, is to have passed from the stage where the poetic consciousness is opposed to the dead object to the stage where this consciousness has virtually become that object. From the melancholic voice of the elegist singing in a country graveyard, the poetic "I" assumes here, so to speak, the part of the dead on whom he has been reflecting: "Je suis un cimetiere abhorre de la lune" ("Spleen"). Ceasing to find its support in the abstraction of a concept, reality finds in Baudelaire's poetry its center of gravity and even its definition, in the finitude promised to the mortal coil. The decline of the aura in the exchange of love-glances, in which Benjamin rightly located the origin of the new love poetry of Baudelaire, finds its exact counterpart in the intensified awareness of the corruptibility of the beloved's body: one need only mention "Une charogne" or the following modulation of the troubadour topic of distant love ("Je t'adore a l'egal de la voute nocturne"), where the amorous assault is gruesomely identified with that of the worm: "Je m'avance a l'attaque, et je grimpe aux assauts / Comme apres un cadavre un choeur de vermisseaux" (I press on to the attack, I climb to the assault, / Like a choir of worms upon a corpse). However interior to the poet's eye, this vision or this awareness of death extends at the same time to the

The first photographs of the OH airglow we took during a lunar eclipse revealed large (20–30-km) east–west waves from horizon to horizon which drifted northward at 10–15 m/sec. These waves were not typical of the ripples we have found to be well-correlated with lower lunar transit.

The ingleborough district has long been famous for its broad limestone plateaux, its deeply cut dales and its swallow holes and caves. The aim of this paper is to discuss the origin of these relief features and to show that a number of pre-Glacial erosion stages can be recognized in the denudation of the area. The district considered forms the south-west edge of the North Pennine highland massif, overlooking the Craven Lowlands, and is dominated by the well-known residual hills of Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent which rise to over 2000 feet. From it flow, in a general southerly direction, the headstreams of the Lune, Ribble, Aire and Wharfe, and it lies on the watershed between the Irish Sea and the North Sea.

(1949). On Hearing Debussy's Clair de Lune. The Educational Forum: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 140-140.

FOR the general use of amateur astronomers this is the best atlas and handbook we have yet seen. The sixteen maps are printed exceptionally clearly, and, while not overcrowded, show more than 7,000 objects. Each map is about 10 in. by 8 in., and is part of a lune, covering, exclusive of overlap, four hours of R.A., and 60° N. or S. of declination. The atlas opens out flat, and shows two maps joined together at the equator, so that about one-fifth of the whole sky is seen at once. Meridians and parallels mark every hour of R.A., and every tenth degree of declination, while marginal divisions enable a position to be fixed to the nearest 5m. or 1°. The polar regions are shown on two pairs of maps. A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920). For Students and Amateurs. By Arthur P. Norton. Pp. 19 + 16 star and 2 index maps. (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, 1910.) Price 5s. net.