William C. Mann passed away on August 13, 2004, after a long struggle with leukemia. He is known to readers of Computational Linguistics as a keen supporter and past president (1987) of ACL, a pioneer in the development of text generation as a field of research in computational linguistics, the originator of rhetorical structure theory (RST) and dialogue game theory (DGT), and the developer (to...

1) Role of E C T in schizophrenia is a controversial issue which is yet far from settled. Various workers have often made contradictory claims. Our findings are to be interpreted in this context, i.e. our observations and conclusions are restricted on to our study and should not be regarded as definitive or as the last word on the role of ECT in schizophrenia. We are aware that while some studi...

The International Union of Psychological Science (‘Union’) co-hosted, with the Chinese Psychological Society its 28th International Congress of Psychology (‘Congress’). The first Congress was held with the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889. In recent decades, they have been held every four years in different parts of the world. The Union has member organizations from 67 nations, representing one ha...

As the crafting of new legislation becomes a drawn-out process, compromises eventually e m e rge, and the resulting proposals often appear to be portions of various proposals spliced together. Such is the case with a farm bill proposal approved Sept. 28 in the Senate Committee on A g r i c u l t u re, Nutrition, and Forestry. As of this writing, the specific language of the bill was being devel...

Peering arrangements between Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), in which providers agree to carry traffic originating from a peer, are common in the Internet. A common contractual peering agreement between smaller ISPs is “Bill-and-Keep,” where no money changes hands between the peers. Using a simple economic model, we investigate the situation when ISPs who have access to a transit ISP, capab...

This essay contains somewhat dry material most useful in motivating eventually a certain crucial but at first sight somewhat technical transition from representations of groups to representations of Lie algebras. Parts of it will also be used in the theory of automorphic forms. I have made some effort to reduce everything to well known facts inmeasure theory and topology. The standard reference...

The “Bill of Material” pattern abbreviated with “BOM” describes a solution for keeping track of generated software components and valid software component combinations, especially in the case of distributed embedded system development. The idea is to include automatic generated version information in the final binary which enables the unique idenitification which components had been used to gen...

Avian bills are iconic structures for the study of ecology and evolution, with hypotheses about the morphological structure of bills dating back to Darwin. Several ecological and physiological hypotheses have been developed to explain the evolution of the morphology of bill shape. Here, we test some of these hypotheses such as the role of habitat, ambient temperature, body size, intraspecific c...

I feel that this lack of support is basically because there are so few wives who are an integral part of their husband's practice, and that our colleagues have not known the resentment building up over the years endured by doctors whose wives are employed while they wait patiently for recognition. My wife, a state-registered nurse, has been associated with this practice over 25 years, the last ...