Raymond College was an unusual experiment in American higher education, one that unfortunately was not to endure. I learned of the school thanks to the interest that Robert Maynard Hutchins took in my education. He was then the head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. Hutchins admired the poetry of my mother, American poet Elizabeth Bartlett; it was she who ...

Nadejda Vintonenko, Jean-Philippe Jais, Nadim Kassis , Mohamed Abdelkarim, Gerard-Yves Perret, Marc Lecouvey , Michel Crepin , Melanie Di Benedetto UMR 7244 CNRS/, CSPBAT Université Paris 13, 1 Rue de Chablis, 93000 Bobigny, France (NV, ML, MA, MDB) INSERM 553 Endothélium et Angiogénèse Laboratoire d’Hémostase, 1 Avenue Claude Vellefaux 75010 Paris, France (NV, MC) Service de Biostatistique et ...

Background Flow diversion (FD)-a young technique using stents with highly increased surface coverage-was introduced to treat complex aneurysms without intra-aneurysmal material placement and has amended the spectrum of endovascular techniques such as stent-assisted coil occlusion considerably. However, ischemic complications, a common side effect in FD, occur more frequently compared with the c...

Ignazio Silone, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, has written strikingly about the role of moral commitment in radical theory. ‘The more Socialist theories claim to be “scientifi c”’, he suggests, ‘the more transitory they are; but Socialist values are permanent. The distinction between theories and values is not suffi ciently recognized, but it is fundamental. On a group of t...

In a recent article published in this journal (van Deemter, Gatt, van der Sluis, & Power, 2012), the authors criticize the Incremental Algorithm (a well-known algorithm for the generation of referring expressions due to Dale & Reiter, 1995, also in this journal) because of its strong reliance on a pre-determined, domain-dependent Preference Order. The authors argue that there are potentially ma...

Using the situation calculus as underlying formalism for specifying database updates as proposed by Raymond Reiter, a semantical notion of relevance of entries in tables to other entries is introduced. Also a semantical notion of relevant action is provided. Some properties of these semantical notions are investigated. In particular, they are compared with syntactical deenitions of relevance th...

As I began reviewing biographical information about Dr. Raymond C. Bartlett in preparation for writing this brief biographical feature, it suddenly occurred to me that this was a rare opportunity to think about the trajectory of my own career path and the influence that some of the visionary clinical microbiologists such as Dr. Raymond Bartlett had on the way clinical microbiology laboratories ...

Discussion of a radiation dose calculation example demonstrates various expressive limitations of the reenement calculus, particularly for systems with continuous variables. A liberalization of reenement, called retrenchment, is proposed, which will support an analogous formal development calculus. Useful concrete system behaviour can be speciied outside the domain of pure reenement, in particu...

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences The Blavatnik School of Computer Science