Augustus Ledyard Smith 1901-1985

Admissions in Dromokaition Psychiatric Hospital of Athens: 1901-1985.

Established in 1887, Dromokaition is the first psychiatric hospital in Athens. Information available for the profile of patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Greece, especially for the first half of the 20th century, is very scarce. The aim of the study is to point out the characteristics of patients admitted and the influence of European dominant views on mental diseases in Greek psych...

Cecil Augustus Joll

Generalized Groves-Ledyard mechanisms

Groves and Ledyard (1977) construct a mechanism for public goods procurement that can be viewed as a direct-revelation Groves mechanism in which agents announce a parameter of a quadratic approximation of their true preferences. The mechanism’s Nash equilibrium outcomes are efficient. The budget is balanced because Groves mechanisms are balanced for the announced quadratic preferences. Tian (19...

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922).

The electrocardiograph is one of the most important instruments with which to examine the human heart and is in constant use all over the world, yet we doubt whether many physicians know who was the first man to demonstrate that the electrical response accompanying the movement of the human heart could easily be shown by a clinical application of a relatively simple instrument. In the early par...

AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts

AUGUSTUS is a software tool for gene prediction in eukaryotes based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model, a probabilistic model of a sequence and its gene structure. Like most existing gene finders, the first version of AUGUSTUS returned one transcript per predicted gene and ignored the phenomenon of alternative splicing. Herein, we present a WWW server for an extended version of AUGUSTUS that ...