This year, 2016, is the 40th anniversary of the publication of A Mathematical Theory of Evidence. Thierry Denoeux, the editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, has asked me to use the occasion to reflect on how I came to write the book and how I experienced its subsequent reception. I am honored and pleased by this invitation. The occasion has reminded me how many individuals h...

The A protein of simian virus 40 is phosphorylated in both productive and transforming infection. The phosphorylated amino acid has been identified as serine and has been localized in a single tryptic peptide of the protein. Because the A protein synthesized in infection by A mutants is phosphorylated to the same extent and in the same peptide as in infection by wild-type virus, the functional ...

An 89-year-old man with no past medical history of interest consulted for an asymptomatic lesion that had arisen on his left heel 40 years earlier and that had become ulcerated in recent months. Examination revealed an indurated, sessile, skin-colored tumor of 3.5 × 4 cm, with a superficial, exudative brownish-yellow scab (Fig. 1A). Skin ultrasound (18 MHz linear probe) revealed a well-defined,...