Patrick W. Tank (1950-2012)

تعامل رسانه و پروتستانیسم 1950-2012

Nonclassical Logics VU 2012 W Exercise Session

• The disjunction of ¬φ and φ is implied by every ψ: this amounts to the validity of ψ ⊃ (φ ∨ ¬φ). Given any valid sentence, any other sentence implies this valid sentence. These are somehow “redundant” assumptions. For example, we may modify Euclid’s theorem as follows: If Gerald Berger is the richest person in the world, then there exist infinitely many primes. Of course the assumption is red...

Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W, Burkina Faso, 2012

In 2010, Burkina Faso became the first country to introduce meningococcal serogroup A conjugate vaccine (PsA-TT). During 2012, Burkina Faso reported increases in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W, raising questions about whether these cases were a natural increase in disease or resulted from serogroup replacement after PsA-TT introduction. We analyzed national surveillance data to describe the...

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire grew up in Orsay, close to Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and did his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg) and ENS (Paris) with Patrick Charnay (1985–1990); he then joined, as a post-doc, the laboratory of John Gurdon in Cambridge (1991–1994), where he identified a crucial Xenopus organizer gene, Siamois. He has been heading a CNRS research group in Marseille since 199...