What to expect in 2014

What to Expect

We study generalisations to the structure groups U(n) of the familiar (abelian) Seiberg-Witten monopole equations on a four-manifold X and their moduli spaces. For n = 1 one obtains the classical monopole equations. For n > 1 our results indicate that there should not be any non-trivial gauge-theoretical invariants which are obtained by the scheme ‘evaluation of cohomology classes on the fundam...

What to expect from teleconferencing.

Like other marvels of the electronic age, teleconferencing has been both oversold and underused. Though it has many potential uses, what managers know, or think they know, about it is generally based on misconceptions. Rather than relying only on vendors of teleconferencing, potential purchasers should first decide what their communication needs are, then choose the system that suits them best....

Primovist, Eovist: what to expect?

Gadolinium ethoxybenzyl dimeglumine (Gd-EOB-DTPA, Primovist in Europe and Eovist in the USA) is a liver-specific magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent that has up to 50% hepatobiliary excretion in the normal liver. After intravenous injection, Gd-EOB-DTPA distributes into the vascular and extravascular spaces during the arterial, portal venous and late dynamic phases, and progressively into...

EBUS in pulmonary sarcoidosis: What to expect?

Learning what to expect (in visual perception)

Expectations are known to greatly affect our experience of the world. A growing theory in computational neuroscience is that perception can be successfully described using Bayesian inference models and that the brain is "Bayes-optimal" under some constraints. In this context, expectations are particularly interesting, because they can be viewed as prior beliefs in the statistical inference proc...