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Why appoint professionals?: A student cataloguing project

Students have provided cheap successful labour for routine retrospective cataloguing projects. The current article examines a library project which went further, using university students with minimum training to catalogue its undergraduate stock from the book in hand to AACR2, level 2, allegedly to professional standard. The article discusses the faults made in MARC coding, descriptive catalog...

How to appoint a senior house officer.

To Elect or to Appoint ?

In this appendix we consider a procedure to assess quantitatively whether the expressive or strategic voting model is more appropriate for the state supreme court voting data used in this paper. As we remarked in the main text, for a given set of cases, the first-stage likelihood function for the votes is identical for both the expressive and strategic voting models, and in this sense the two m...

A Learning Evolutionary Trading System LETS

Many techniques have been used to model financial time series data such as stock prices, including linear and nonlinear statistical methods and more inscrutable methods such as neural nets. The hope is that if the time series can be predicted fairly well, the predictions can be used to make profitable buy/sell/hold decisions. Time series modelling may work well for physical systems, such as blo...

Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...