Devising the Revels

Devising genuine spatial correlation functions.

The choice of the mathematical form of spatial correlation functions for optical fields is restricted by the constraint of nonnegative definiteness. We discuss a sufficient condition for ensuring the satisfaction of such a constraint.

Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature

orientation in the late 1860s and 1870s, prior to the ascendancy of bacteriology; this helps account for the fact that four of his seven chapters focus on these early years, which other scholars have found less dramatic than the golden etiological age of the eighties and nineties. If the quest for knowability and demonstrability was crucial to the new understanding of disease, however (and it w...

Revels, reviews and renewal: looking back, looking ahead.

Extending a Method of Devising Software Contracts

Classes in object-oriented programs can be specified using assertions, specifically, preconditions and postconditions on individual methods and invariants on whole classes. Such assertions can be seen as forming a contract between a class and its client classes and, by extension, between the developers of a class and the developers of client classes. In some programming environments, the contra...

Devising outlier-based alerts for medication orders

Drugs are chemical substances, which can, on consumption and under certain conditions, be toxic and cause Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in patients. This paper puts forth the proposition of generating a systemic alert to a clinician, at the time of placing a medication order for a patient, when the number of ADRs associated with the selected medication is significantly different from the number...