Take for example a transaction that is performed without any defection. A transaction peer may still defame the other one by disrecommending it to a third entity. […] Under certain circumstances, the defamed entity has to pro-actively defend itself by disrecommending the defamer.

Since the time of the publication of the first edition of this book in 2004, Peter J. Scheuer, our teacher and friend, and one of the foremost hepatopathologists, has died, as have Dame Sheila Sherlock and Fenton Schaffner, two brilliant and renowned hepatologists.

At some point in the history of QC evaluations of alcohol beverages the phrase ‘organoleptic testing’ crept into the industry's vocabulary. Though organoleptic testing does refer to the use of the senses for product evaluations, that is where the comparison to sensory evaluation stops.

It's Christmas at ground zero / Just seconds left to go / I'll duck and cover / With my Yuletide lover / Underneath the mistletoe