William J. Gedney (1915–1999)

Dawson, J. William. Modern Ideas of Evolution

While politicians have known for years that the essence ofleadership is embodied in a keen awareness of what the followers want, that news hasn't yet percolated sufficiently deeply into the medical care field. This is an excellent book-a model of thoughtful, academic analysis and insights, with a dash of historical relevance to give it the appearance of utility. Regionali7ation is good, necessa...

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Journal of Statistics Education, v17n1: Timothy J. Robinson, William A. Brenneman and William R. Myers

While split-plot designs have received considerable attention in the literature over the past decade, there seems to be a general lack of intuitive understanding of the error structure of these designs and the resulting statistical analysis. Typically, students learn the proper error terms for testing factors of a split-plot design via expected mean squares. This does not provide any true insig...

QUERY INTERFACE BASED ON AGGREGATION / GENERALIZATION HIERARCHIES William J . Weiland

In order for automated information systems to be used effectively, they must be made easily accessible to a wide range of users and with short training periods. This work proposes a method of organizing documents based on the concepts of aggregation and generalization hierarchies. We propose a graphical user interface to provide a more intuitive form of Boolean query. This design is based on ma...

Justice William J. Brennan and the Warren Court