SUMMARY. Rao (1945) proposed a method, based on Fisher's information matrix, for measuring distance between distributions of a parametric family satisfying certain regularity conditions. In this paper, Rao's (1945) method is applied to obtain the distance between two negative multinomial distributions. Some other properties are discussed too.

background and aims. impacted lower third molar is found in 90% of the general population. impacted lower third molar surgery may result in periodontal complications on the distal surface of the adjacent second molar. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of flap design on the periodontal status of the second molar after lower third molar surgery. materials and methods. twenty patien...

Three strands of activity can be identified in the history of pain measurement. The first, psychophysics, dates back to the nineteenth century and measures the effect of analgesia by quantifying the noxious stimulation required to elicit pain, as well as the maximum stimulation tolerated. The second uses standardized questionnaires for patients, developed to categorize pain according to its emo...

INTRODUCTION Dans cette petite chronique, je propose de rendre compte des idées directrices et des événements qui ont jalonné l’évolution des hypertextes depuis l’article séminal de Bush en 1945 jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En effet, on peut regretter qu’en français, la littérature de type “présentation générale” sur les hypertextes soit relativement pauvre, s’il l’on excepte les ouvrages de Balpe (199...

fundamental to Freud's later work. She also stresses the importance of Freud's six-month stint in 1883 as junior houseman in Theodor Meynert's Institute of Cerebral Anatomy. In his teaching at that time, and in his Psychiatrie (1884), Meynert placed great weight on the first and third principles of Darwin's Expression of the emotions which Freud was to apply in Studies on hysteria (1893-95). Br...

In 1940 hejoined the Royal Army Medical Corps, served with the 8th Army in the desert and was taken prisoner on the fall of Tobruk; after two years' captivity he was repatriated in 1943 under the Geneva Convention regarding medical personnel. He returned to military service as LieutenantColonel in charge of the medical division of a General Hospital, landed in France in 1944 and took part in th...