Word: matrix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barry Giles is a victim of fragilitas ossium (brittleness of the bones). No matter how well-balanced his diet or how rich it may be in calcium, his bone-forming cells simply do not make enough bone matrix. The result is that all his bones are thin, slightly porous and extremely brittle...
...collaboration with British-born Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Swiss-born Dr. Jurgen Ruesch has written Communication, the Social Matrix of Psychiatry (Norton; $4.50), in an attempt to tie insanity and psychiatry with communication engineering and other sciences (among them, cybernetics) into a single system. Samples from Ruesch's chapters...
Some professors of economics may share the lady's feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
...know, the present trays were made when the metal shortage got rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly...