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Colin Clifford

(In: Rosenblith, W.A. (Ed.), Sensory Communication, Wiley, New York, pp. 303–317). Based on simple behavioural experiments, Reichardt proposed an elegant computational account of motion processing by the visual system of the Chlorophanus beetle. His proposal has been simplified, elaborated and reinvented on at least one occasion but remains the most influential model of visual motion processing...

Colin Diemer

Tropical Geometry is a rapidly developing field at the interface of algebraic geometry and polyhedral combinatorics. In [14] and [42] tropical geometry was related to constructing compactifications of certain non-compact algebraic varieties. To a subvariety X of an algebraic torus there exist compactifications X with boundaries D = X\X with desirable properties, and such that the structure of D...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...