Salvador Moncada: NO holding back

Salvador Moncada: NO holding back

Salvador Moncada — whose work on the signalling molecule nitric oxide has made him one of biomedicine's most cited scientists — was once described by his boss as capable of running not just an excellent department but also a country. The time was the late 1970s and the boss was James Black, later to become a Nobel prizewinner. Both men were at the research laboratories of the pharmaceutical com...

Pioneers in cardiology: Salvador Moncada, MD, PhD, FRS.

Hungary: Holding Back the Tiers

Few voting systems in the world possess a feature set as rich as the Hungarian electoral law, which incorporates three distinct sets of districts, a mixed-member system, a two-round system (2RS) (using two different criteria for run-off qualification), two potentially separate legal thresholds, two different sets of rules for proportional representation (PR), plus a few additional twists relate...

What Is Holding Back Convnets for Detection?

Convolutional neural networks have recently shown excellent results in general object detection and many other tasks. Albeit very effective, they involve many user-defined design choices. In this paper we want to better understand these choices by inspecting two key aspects “what did the network learn?”, and “what can the network learn?”. We exploit new annotations (Pascal3D+), to enable a new ...

No . 55 Asset Holding and Consumption :

* We thank to the Institute of Household Economy (Kakei-Keizai-Kenkyu-Sho) for providing us micro-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumption. We also thank to participants at the ESRI seminar. The views expressed in this paper are those of authors' and do not necessarily represent those of the Economic and Social Research Institute or of the Japanese Government. Abstract The 1990s...