Natural languages can express some logical propositions that humans, with similar cultural traditions, are able to immediately and correctly compute. We illustrate this fact with a famous text that Arthur Conan Doyle attributed to Sherlock Holmes: the “old maxim” mentioned in “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, where Holmes said: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the imp...

Accurate characterization of groundwater resources is required for sustainable management. Due to the cost installing monitoring wells and challenges in collecting managing situ data, data are sparse—especially developing countries. In this study, we demonstrate an analysis long-term storage changes using temporally sparse but spatially dense well where each had as few one historical measuremen...

The combination of properties of beryllium which results in this very low Z element being a candidate for use in fusion reactors is reviewed. The occurrence, availability, and processing of beryllium from both bertrandite (domestic) and beryl (imported) ores are described. The available beryllium grades are characterized. The purity level of these grades, which are all unalloyed in the usual se...

We thank Beryl Bates, Susannah Badger, Heather Nunnerley, Tony Ruffell, the staff of the south east London breast cancer screening service, Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham Family Practitioner Committee, and the general practitioners who took part in this study. 1 Department of Health and Social Security. Breast cancer screening. London: HMSO, 1986. (Forrest report.) 2 Bowling A, Jacobsen B. Sc...

Dr. Beryl Corner: The mother of this patient was admitted to Bristol Maternity Hospital 26 hours before delivery with ruptured membranes. Labour was normal, ending with a spontaneous vertex delivery of a male child which looked immature and weighed 4 lb 12 oz. His general behaviour, appearance, and head circumference which was just over 13 inches, suggested that the gestation was probably about...

Iron is an indicator for soil fertility and the usability of an area for cultivating crops. Remote sensing is the only suitable tool for surveying large areas at a high temporal and spatial interval, yet a relative high spectral resolution is needed for mapping iron contents with reflectance data. Sentinel-2 has several bands that cover the 0.9 μm iron absorption feature, while space-borne sens...