S OF SPECIAL INTEREST THE RESTORATION OF METHEMOGLOBIN BY MEANS OF GLUTAMIC ACID. A. Al. Genkin and M. C. Volkov. From the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute. Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, USSR. 47:50, 1959. A lethal dose of sodium nitrite was injected into rats. All died. The average methemoglobin content of blood collected just before death was 72 per cent. Another group of rats re...

The Society has several Special Interest Groups which organise meetings and other activities to enable the exchange of information and views within specific areas of meteorology. These are informal groups of professionals interested in specific technical areas of meteorology. The groups are primarily a way of communicating at a specialist level and are organized and often financed by the group ...

My research interests focus on the geometry and topology of soft materials, in particular the effects of nonlinear elasticity on emergent structural and mechanical properties in complex systems. This encompasses a broad class of systems in several fields, from soft condensed matter physics to materials science to mechanical and biomedical engineering, with problems including programmable matter...

In this article we will describe some of the main developments in interest-rate modelling since Black & Scholes’ (1973) and Merton’s (1973) original articles on the pricing of equity derivatives. In particular, we will focus on continuoustime, arbitrage-free models for the full term structure of interest rates. Other models which model a limited number of key interest rates or which operate in ...

We consider problems that can be characterized by large dynamic graphs. Communication networks provide the prototypical example of such problems where nodes in the graph are network IDs and the edges represent communication between pairs of network IDs. In such graphs, nodes and edges appear and disappear through time so that methods that apply to static graphs are not suucient. We introduce a ...

Despite the considerable research interest shown in various types of knowledge management systems, not much academic work can be found on information technology (IT) support for managing competence. This paper addresses this shortage by presenting an 18-month action case study of the design, implementation, and evaluation of a traditional competence system at Volvo Information Technology AB in ...

My research focuses primarily on optimal control of systems in domains with contacts, equipped with variable impedance actuators. The control of such robots is non-trivial due to the the discontinuity in the dynamics which is introduced by mechanical contact with the environment. The traditional optimal control approach is designed to handle smooth continuous system dynamics for tasks over a pr...

Editor—Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to the letter from Dr Ward—we thank him for his comments. While we applaud the messages in the most recent Davies report to which Dr Ward refers, his reference to Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead deserves further discussion. In our editorial, we referred to Sheryl Sandberg’s TED Talk from 2010 where s...