Rankings are the sorcerer’s new apprentice

Are the Official World Golf Rankings Biased?∗

Golf is a global sport with professional golfers playing on many organized tours throughout the world. The largest and most important tours for male professionals include the PGA Tour, European Tour, Japanese Tour and Asian Tour. The Official World Golf Ranking, or OWGR, is a system for ranking male professional golfers on a single scale. We say a ranking system is unbiased if otherwise identic...

The Sourcerer’s Apprentice

This assignment considers the use of the apprenticeship model of teaching in academic subject areas. This has been investigated by various authors since 1989. I will consider the various flavours of the techniques presented and some of the practical implications of these. I will draw from our experience running several courses where students undertake business like projects within a protective ...

The scientists' apprentice.

The Virtual Apprentice

Over the past couple of decades, virtual humans have been attracting more and more attention. Many applications including, video games, movies, and various training and tutoring systems have benefited from work in this area. While the visual quality of virtual agents has improved dramatically, their intelligence and socialization still needs improvement. In this paper, we present work towards e...

The nurse apprentice, 1860–1977

of letters, shown clearly by Laurence Brockliss and Eric Hamraoui. As well as corresponding widely with his contemporaries, Tissot has left us with abundant source material on the patient/ doctor relationship. His detailed diagnostic letters as well as the patients' requests allow historians, such as Frederic Sardet, Philip Rieder and Vincent Barras, to examine eighteenth-century conceptions of...