J. A. V. Butler

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South Africa, LGBT Issues in South Africa has undergone significant sociopolitical transformation in the last six decades, from the “legal” adoption of apartheid in 1948 to the first democratic election in 1994, and a new constitution two years later. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in South Africa is at the forefront of constitutional and sociopolitical reform. Num...

V(D)J recombination

How is it regulated? V(D)J recombination is regulated in a tissue-specific, lineage-specific and stage-specific manner. The V, D and J segments are recombined in an ordered sequence (D–J rearrangements before V–DJ). As you might expect, the process is partly regulated via the expression of RAG1 and RAG2, but it is also mediated by the differential accessibility of particular antigen receptor lo...

The D+H2(v=1,j)→HD(v′,j′)+H reaction. A detailed quasiclassical trajectory study

ButlerBot: The Robotic Butler

ButlerBot is a robotic butler created to cater to people’s questions at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003 conference and to escort people to desired destinations. The three main areas of research focused on in ButlerBot, the Stony Brook Robot Design Team’s new robot created for the American Association of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Robot Host compe...

Dr. Butler revisited.

WILLIAM BuTLER, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, was famous in his lifetime as a medical eccentric, whose practice could only with difficulty be classified under any school-theory. His papers, preserved in the Fellows' Library at Clare, confirm that he was humane and forthright, not tied to any philosophical system but with ideas pointing towards the testing of remedies by trials and of theo...