Who We Miss

Who Was Miss Mullikin?

1. INTRODUCTION. In 1946 R. L. Moore, responding to a prospective student's request for information about graduate study, closed his letter with a personal note: " Please remember me to Miss Mullikin " [18, p. 295]. Who was Miss Mullikin? And why did someone of Moore's stature wish to convey his best wishes to her? Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893–1975) was Moore's third Ph.D. student, one of the f...

We Miss You, Allen

Rationing tests for drug-resistant tuberculosis - who are we prepared to miss?

BACKGROUND Early identification of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) increases the likelihood of treatment success and interrupts transmission. Resource-constrained settings use risk profiling to ration the use of drug susceptibility testing (DST). Nevertheless, no studies have yet quantified how many patients with DR-TB this strategy will miss. METHODS A total of 1,545 subjec...

WHO maternal death and near-miss classifications.

a MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. b Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. c Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England. d Office for National Statistics, London, England. Correspondence to João Paulo Souza (e-mail: souzaj@...

Subset-lex: did we miss an order?

We generalize a well-known algorithm for the generation of all subsets of a set in lexicographic order with respect to the sets as lists of elements (subset-lex order). We obtain algorithms for various combinatorial objects such as the subsets of a multiset, compositions and partitions represented as lists of parts, and for certain restricted growth strings. The algorithms are often loopless an...