OBJECTIVE To analyse the completeness of written consent for laparoscopic tubal occlusion and to consider the medico-legal implications of incomplete written consent. METHODS A retrospective review was undertaken of the medical records of all women who had laparoscopic tubal occlusion in 2006 in a district general hospital to elicit details of risks of the procedure as recorded on the consent...

Most of Mathematics 281 deals with some fundamental ideas about and properties of the real numbers and continuous functions. These ideas and properties include sequences and series (which are studied in some first-year calculus), the least upper bound property, elementary topology of R and R d , convergence and uniform convergence of series of functions, and term-by-term differentiation and int...

Most of Mathematics 281 deals with some fundamental ideas about and properties of the real numbers and continuous functions. These ideas and properties include sequences and series (which are studied in some first-year calculus), the least upper bound property, elementary topology of R and R d , convergence and uniform convergence of series of functions, and term-by-term differentiation and int...

Most of Mathematics 281 deals with some fundamental ideas about and properties of the real numbers and continuous functions. These ideas and properties include sequences and series (which are studied in some first-year calculus), the least upper bound property, elementary topology of R and R d , convergence and uniform convergence of series of functions, and term-by-term differentiation and int...

Being surfaces of intermediate type, i.e., neither geometrically rational or ruled, nor of general type, K3 surfaces have a rich yet accessible arithmetic theory, which has started to come into focus over the last fifteen years or so. These notes, written to accompany a 4-hour lecture series at the 2015 Arizona Winter School, survey some of these developments, with an emphasis on explicit metho...

These notes aim at giving the basic definitions and results from model theory. My intention in writing them, is that they should provide the reader with many examples, even with some proofs, and contain most of the definitions. Differences in vocabulary can be quite an obstacle to mutual understanding, and having the terminology written up somewhere should prove helpful. An index is included at...

This paper introduces a new system for processing on-line whiteboard notes. Notes written on a whiteboard is a new modality in handwriting recognition research that has received relatively little attention in the past. For the recognition we use an off-line HMM-recognizer, which has been developed in the context of our previous work. The recognizer is supplemented with methods for processing th...

We introduce and explain language models. These notes are inspired in part by notes by Collins [2011a], who provides more detail about some topics. See also Jurafsky and Martin [2016] for a textbook treatment. What makes a good English sentence? A human might tell you that a good sentence is grammatical, meaningful, and “fits” into the context in which it is uttered or written. In NLP, all of t...

I have written these notes to accompany my first two tutorial lectures on concentration of measure given at IPAM during March 20–23, 2018. I intend the lectures to be quite basic, so they will miss out many large and important topics related to concentration. These notes are a guide to my lectures and to further reading, so only a few proofs are given in full here. I am grateful to a number of ...

These lecture notes are intended to recapitulate class lectures. Several notational considerations exist. Namely, appendices to lectures generally provide information not found in the lecture, but are nonetheless helpful for producing a more rigorous understanding of the material; an * (asterisk) next to a proposition, definition, theorem, etc. indicates it was not explicitly written (or mentio...