It was Dr Vincent Zigas who first started research into kuru and Dr Carleton Gajdusek joined him later. Vincent would drop us off and pick us up with his Landrover and we would patrol through the kuruaffected region with Carleton. Vincent was from Europe and we had great difficulty in understanding his Tok Pisin. He knew this, so he would purposely talk in a way that made us laugh. He was a goo...

The main new notions are the notions of tangent-like spaces and local monoids. The main result is the passage from a local monoid to its tangent-like space which is a local Leibniz algebra. Based on my belief that Leibniz algebras are too general to establish a fair counterpart of Lie theory in the context of Leibniz algebras, I introduced the notion of a local Leibniz algebra in Section 1.6 of...

This paper aims at exploring the potential of a lay community as post-editors. It focusses on 15 members of an online technology support forum, native speakers of the target language (TL) and some knowledge of the source language (SL) translating content that was machine translated from English into German specific to their own domain. It presents the most predominant errors remaining in the po...

In the questionnaire analysis, how to find a statistically significant difference between two or more groups in a continuous measure is one of the major problems in researches. However, it is difficult for researchers to solve the issue of finding possible statistically significant difference. There are two causes of this issue. The one is that the process of finding the statistically significa...

Quality and ethics need to be embedded into all areas of research with human participants. Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines are international ethical and scientific quality standards for designing, conducting, recording and reporting trials involving human participants. Compliance with GCP is expected to provide public assurance that the rights, safety and wellbeing of participants are p...

This paper presents an analysis of imperative formation in Norwegian. The analysis occasions discussion of variation as reranking in OT, as well as providing a novel example of a grammar in which 'null' is the optimal candidate. The Norwegian imperative is in most cases identical to the verb stem (cf. Faarlund, Lie & Vannebo 1997:477). For verbs having the familiar disyllabic structure with a f...

The iterative wave function reconstruction (IWFR) is one type of in-line holography and retrieves a complex wave function from a set of through-focus images. We have verified that the IWFR provides an extremely good estimate of an atomic-resolution exit wave function (EWF) simply from the Fourier transforms of observed intensities. Thus, the first guess of the EWF using only five images gives a...

This work proposes a Certification Authorities organization in order to achieve secure open communications. The report considers current international ongoing works as well as existing practices. Actually, our work tries to solve the present shortcomings when trying to organize a hierarchical CAs structure based on a naming hierarchy. The proposal focuses in the idea of having certification and...

This article addresses the computation of invariant and stabilizing control laws for dual-substrate fed-batch fermentors. The design is based on two commonly used model structures. It will be shown how to derive partial state feedbacks, using only biomass and volume as measures, that keep the substrates at a desired concentration provided the model is good enough and does not change with time. ...

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is an international standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analyses, and reporting of clinical trials. The goal of GCP is to ensure the protection of the rights, integrity, and confidentiality of clinical trial participants and to ensure the credibility and accuracy of data and reported results. In the United States, trial sp...