The Hanna Golf Cup, which was up for competition for the first time, was won by Dr. J. C. Smyth after a tie between four Fellows. By the kindness of the Captain and Committee of the Royal County Down Golf Club, the origi-nal match was played at Newcastle, the tie being subsequentlv played off at Malone. During the year an attempt has been made to develop the social side of the Society. A number...

There is surprising evidence that the number of unwanted pregnancies ending in abortions has held relatively constant in France for the past twenty years, notwithstanding the spread of modern contraceptive methods which can be assumed to be highly effective. We first review the circumstances of modern contraceptive prevalence, then attempt to identify whether it has been consistent across all s...

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We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16 comparable participant pools around the world. However, there is a huge cross-societal variation. Some participant pools punished the high contributors as much as they punished the low contributors, whe...

On 1st January 2003, the population of metropolitan France was estimated to be 59.6 million, plus a further 1.8 million living in the French overseas departments, bringing the total to 61.4 million [1]. The population in metropolitan France increased by nearly 290,000 people (+ 0.5%) in 2002. This was very similar to 2001, with a slight fall in the surplus of births over deaths (natural increas...

The problem of identifying influencers in an online social network (OSN) has received a lot of attention recently. However, the influence a user has on an OSN depends a lot on how active they are, besides their reputation, or the quality of information they are capable of providing. This can be misleading: a common observation about many OSNs is that the most influential users there are not wel...

Multi-agent systems can be considered from a variety of perspectives. One such perspective arises from considering the architecture of an agent itself. Another is that of an instantiated agent architecture and its interaction with its peers in a MAS. A third perspective is that of an external observer. These three perspectives cover a potentially overlapping but essentially distinct set of issu...

ings are anirobic. Glycogen, the main source of the muscle's energy, is broken down to lactic acid, and it is the presence of the latter which appears to be the causative agent in bringing about contraction. The recovery of the muscle, which must take place during the "refractory period," when the muscle will not respond to further stimulation, requires the presence of oxygen. Of the lactic aci...