GEOFFREY KEYNES, The gates ofmemory, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 428, illus., £12.50. An autobiographer unveiling his self-portrait can pick an excuse from a wide variety, ranging from the sincere attempt to entertain his friends to a sackcloth-and-ashes apologia pro sua vita. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, by borrowing from Blake his title, invites us to look upon his real self, a self t...

A cluster-based architecture with a proxy and a few back-end servers is a popular solution to face the ever increasing demand for data-intensive services. Stateof-the-art Cluster-based servers employ a proxy that is responsible for distributing incoming requests to the back-end server in a manner that is transparent to clients. The back-end servers send the response to the proxy, which then for...

This thesis attempts to justify a normative role for methodology by sketching a pragmatic way out of the dichotomy between two major strands in economic methodology: empiricism and postmodernism. It is important to understand that my thesis is about methodology and this means that I do not add another recipe with prescriptions as to how economics needs to change in order to become a " better " ...

Anthropogenic Heat (AH) emissions modify the energy balance in urban areas and is crucial for microclimate modelling improved weather forecast modelling. Therefore, present study conducted on Delhi its surroundings firstly aims to estimate AH using Earth Observation (EO) data of Landsat 8 then, evaluate impact detailed roughness parameterization estimation further validate obtained flux values ...

1.OVERVIEW AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. Introduction. Populations, Samples, and Processes. Pictorial Tabular Methods in Descriptive Statistics. Measures of Location. Variability. 2.PROBABILITY. Sample Spaces Events. Axioms, Interpretations, Properties Probability. Counting Techniques. Conditional Independence. 3.DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. Random Variables. Probability D...

Community-based conservation, despite being more inclusive than fortress has been criticized for a top-down implementation of external ideas brought to local communities conservation's benefit. This is particularly true Changpas, the pastoral people Changthang in trans-Himalayan India who live alongside unique wildlife. Our main aim was co-design conservation interventions through participatory...

A critical discussion is presented for the Author Metrics Database (AMD) created by Ioannides et al. (2016, 2020) containing citation-based indicators 165,000 authors publishing in journals indexed Scopus. It concluded that AMD a rich intermediary dataset open further analysis to all interested users. However, its suggest false precision and lack transparency. The theoretical statistical basis ...

Document filtering is a popular task in information retrieval. A stream of documents arriving over time is filtered for documents relevant to a set of topics. The distinguishing feature of document filtering is the temporal aspect introduced by the stream of documents. Document filtering systems, up to now, have been evaluated in terms of traditional metrics like (microor macro-averaged) precis...

BACKGROUND The levels of 19 elements (As, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Se, Tl, U, V, Zn) from sixteen different Argentine production sites of unifloral [eucalyptus (Eucaliptus rostrata), chilca (Baccharis salicifolia), Algarrobo (Prosopis sp.), mistol (Ziziphus mistol) and citric] and multifloral honeys were measured with the aim to test the quality of the selected samples...