Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

Once more into the breach, dear friends.

"Once More unto the Breach": The Systemic Failure of Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to Entrenched Emergencies

Sang Froid in a time of trouble: is a vaccine against HIV possible?

Since the announcement of the STEP trial results in the past months, we have heard many sober pronouncements on the possibility of an HIV vaccine. On the other hand, optimistic quotations have been liberally used, from Shakespeare's Henry V's "Once more unto the breach, dear friends" to Winston Churchill's definition of success as "going from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm". ...

Once More Unto the Breach ... towards Artificial Homeostasis?

The field of biologically inspired computing has generated many novel, interesting and useful computational systems. None of these systems alone is capable of approaching the level of behaviour for which the artificial intelligence and robotics communities strive. We suggest that it is now time to move on to integrating a number of these approaches in a biologically justifiable way. To this end...

Friendship Formation, Oppositional Identity, and Segregation∗

The aim of this paper is to explain how friendships form, especially between races, and how it can explain (social) segregation or integration between communities. For that, we develop an explicit model of network formation where individuals receive direct and indirect benefits from friendship connections but have to pay some costs for interacting with people. Individuals from each community ar...