The Sixth Lugano Conference: Basic science papers

Sixth Annual Castle Conference

Conference Papers

Monitoring workers in the public sector services presents distinctive challenges because output is multidimensional and preferences for each dimension vary across clients, but for legal and political reasons performance measures often have to be standardized and cannot be based on market prices. We show that this creates three types of bias and identify these biases by applying “value-added” pa...

The Sixth Pacific Science Congress.

The Sixth Pacific Science Congress: PROFESSOR RoY Special Articles: ELWOOD CLAUSEN.. 449 Effect of Ultra-short Radio Waves on Plant Growth: DR. J. VAN OVERBEEK, DR. L. REED BRANTLEY The Structure of the Pacific Basin as Indicated by and PROFESSOR G. W. POTAPENKo. Bio-electric Earthquakes: PROFESSOR B. GUTENBERG. 456 Potentials of the Hen 's Egg: PROFESSOR ALEXIS L. Scientific Events: ROMANOFF a...

Report on the Sixth Conference on Artificial

the attempt to build systems that show intelligence on a human level and scale while working in realistic situations, that is, systems that can operate in environments they do not know in advance, on tasks they are not specifically designed for, and that embrace the breadth of human capabilities. Motivated by the original idea of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and 1960s, there has been a ...

XVII International AIDS Conference: From Evidence to Action - Basic science

This article focuses on the sessions in which basic science research was presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008). It also provides an analysis of basic science issues which generated significant discussion and debate at the conference and are likely to have implications for future laboratory and clinical research. Data presented at AIDS 2008 confirmed the speed with whic...