tIHE Council begs to present the seventy-second anntual report of the Society. Tlhe roll of the Society now stands as follows T'his 1Year Last Year Honorary Fellows 7 9 Life Fellows 13 11 Life MNem-nbers (under o0l regtulationis) 2 2 Fellowxs 274 243 Members 39 During the sessioni the Societv has lost by (leath Sir WN'illiam \Vhitla, M.A., MI.D., LL.D., Honorary Fellow, Presi(lent 1886-7, 1901-...

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Opaque selling is a mechanism whereby a seller conceals product or price information from buyers prior to purchase. Over time opaque intermediaries, such as Hotwire and Priceline.com, have emerged as an established distribution channel for the travel industry. The opaque channel has two countervailing effects: it can increase sales by attracting price-sensitive travelers who may otherwise not p...

Rendering refractive caustics from transparent objects on opaque objects is computationally intensive. This paper presents a fast rendering technique for transparent objects and refractive caustics due to transparent objects on the opaque object. To calculate the intensities of caustics, we set virtual planes around the opaque object and store the intensities of caustics on the virtual planes a...

Early attempts at intrathoracic surgery in nonventilated patients were fraught with rapidly developing respiratory distress and a fast moving operative field. The difficulty with performing a thoracotomy in a spontaneously breathing patient, for both the patient and the surgeon, is easily explained by two phenomena: Pendel-luft and Mediastinal shift (Fig. 5.1) [1]. Both phenomena can be explain...

The repair of a fractured porcelain surface with a resin composite was investigated. The effects of applying an opaque resin to porcelain surfaces, which were silanated by a ceramic primer from a repair kit or by an experimental silane coupling agent, were studied. The porcelain surfaces were silanated for 10 sec and 60 min. Three types of adherents were evaluated: opaque resin with light irrad...

Many systems run rich analytics on sensitive data in the cloud, but are prone to data breaches. Hardware enclaves promise data confidentiality and secure execution of arbitrary computation, yet still suffer from access pattern leakage. We propose Opaque, a distributed data analytics platform supporting a wide range of queries while providing strong security guarantees. Opaque introduces new dis...

Mesoconius Enderlein, including Zelatractodes Enderlein new synonym, is revised for Central America with one described species (Mesoconius hemithorax Frey) and five new species (M. bicolor, M. dianthus, M. nigrihumeralis, M. tigrinus, and M. zadbi). The relatively large species of this entirely Neotropical genus, most of which are restricted to narrow high elevation ranges, lack the male genita...