(i) Supervised adaptive filters, which require the availability of a training sequence that provides different realizations of a desired response for a specified input signal vector. The desired response is compared against the actual response of the filter due to the input signal vector, and the resulting error signal is used to adjust the free parameters of the filter. The process of paramete...

Two patients are reported who presented to surgeons with intermittent intestinal obstruction of the small intestine. The intestine was inflamed and oedematous and was resected. Subsequently both patients developed systemic lupus erythematosus. One patient continued to have intestinal obstruction until treated with steroids, to which both patients subsequently responded. Histology showed a diffu...

Much tribal knowledge can be shared if only we have the tools to disseminate it. Tonal linguistics is one such domain which non-natives have always struggled with. “The African” I once said “continued to admire attractive flourishes in someone else’s language and wished he could say the same things the same way in his own language until suddenly it dawned on him that some expressions in his mot...

Infirmary first opened for the reception of patients, "though the "official" opening was deferred until 13th December. During the whole of these two hundred years the Work of the Infirmary has continued by day and by night, unceasing and increasing. But it is difficult for now fully to appreciate what this means?how really different was the Great Britain which the Infirmary's founders knew from...