THE ALEXANDRA GRAVING-DOCK, BELFAST. (INCLUDING PLATES AND APPENDICES).

Eve Roman and Alexandra

Introduction Epidemiology is the basic quantitative science of public health and, as such, is concerned with the distribution, determinants, treatment, management, and potential control of disease. Concentrating on the first two of these, this chapter reviews the epidemiology of lymphomas – a heterogeneous group of malignancies that is estimated to account for around 3–4% of cancers worldwide. ...

Prediction with Limited Advice and Multiarmed Bandits with Paid ObservationsFull Version Including Appendices

We study two problems of online learning under restricted information access. In the first problem, prediction with limited advice, we consider a game of prediction with expert advice, where on each round of the game we query the advice of a subset of M out of N experts. We present an algorithm that achieves O (√ N M T lnN ) regret on T rounds of this game. The second problem, the multiarmed ba...

Chris D’Souza and Alexandra Lai

In 1952, Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, . . . , demonstrated mathematically why putting all your eggs in one basket is an unacceptably risky strategy and why diversification is the nearest an investor or business manager can ever come to a free lunch. That revelation touched off the intellectual movement that revolutionized Wall Street, corporate finance, and business decisions around the worl...

Authority in the Dock

The dock problem revisited

The dock problem (cf. [2], [4, 5]), which is that of understanding the scattering of surface water waves by a thin semi-infinite rigid plate floating on the free surface of water of infinite depth, gives rise to the following mixed boundary value problem, involving Laplace’s equation in two dimensions, with (x, y) representing the rectangular Cartesian coordinates, assuming linearised theory of...