In order for the study of the human mind and brain to become a successful natural science, a sufficiently large number of researchers must organize their research on the basis of theoretical commitments and methodologies that reflect, in broad outline, the realities of their object of study. Yet there has been, for over a century, enormous resistance to incorporating into the human sciences the...

Narcolepsy-Cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder associated with the human leukocyte antigen HLA DR2. This is a prerequisite for the disease in 95 to 98% of Caucasian patients. It has been demonstrated that the HLA DQB1*0602 allele is a better marker for narcolepsy than DRB1*1501 (DR2). We present a DR-negative and DQB1*0602-positive Caucasian Spanish patient with a very unusual genotype. A...

Software inspections are important for finding defects in software products (Fagan, 1976; Gilb, 1993; Humphrey, 1995; Strauss and Ebenau, 1994). A typical inspection includes two stages: individual preparation followed by a group review with roles assigned to each reviewer. Research has shown that group tasks typically result in process loss (Lorge et al., 1958; Steiner, 1972). In software defe...

Intense, transient quasi-electrostatic (QE) fields, which exist above thunderclouds following a positive cloudto-ground lightning discharge, can produce an upward travelling runaway electron (REL) beam. A new two-dimensional (2D) REL-QE model is developed, expanding the previously reported 1D model [Bell et al., 1995] and incorporating the QE [Pasko et al., 1997a] and the recently developed ele...

I explore here the extent to which a number of linguistic innovations, characteristic of the Englishes of the South-East of England, have diffused to a rural area to the north-west of East Anglia, known as the Fens. In doing so, I assess whether diffusion models in the literature to date adequately account for the outcomes of diffusion, as demonstrated in the casual speech of 18 adolescents fro...

Previous spectroscopic analyses of Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars in six globular clusters revealed too low masses in four clusters when compared to canonical evolutionary theory, while the masses of the BHB stars in NGC 6752 and M 5 are found to be consistent with theory. We recalculated BHB star masses using new cluster distances derived by Reid (1997a,b) from HIPPARCOS parallaxes of loca...

In the past 15 years it has become possible to collect data from participants who are tested via the Internet rather than in the laboratory. Although this mode of research has some inherent limitations owing to lack of control and observation of conditions, it also has a number of advantages over lab research. Many of the potential advantages have been well-described in a number of publications...

What is happening in and around psychiatric services that raises fears of a harmful separation between psychiatrists and the rest of the medical fraternity? The last National Health Service (NHS) reforms at the beginning of the 1990s split some mental health services into separate organisations from their local acute services. Paragraph 5.14 in the Government’s White Paper The New NHS (NHS Exec...

Software inspections are important for finding defects in software products (Fagan 1976, Gilb 1993, Humphrey 1995, Strauss & Ebenau 1994). A typical inspection includes two stages: individual preparation followed by a group review with roles assigned to each reviewer. Research has shown that group tasks typically result in process loss (Lorge et al 1958, Steiner 1972). In software defect detect...

RoboCup competitions were first proposed by Mackworth in 1993. The main goal of this scientific competition is to exploit, improve and integrate the methods and techniques from robotics, machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) disciplines to create an autonomous team of soccer playing robots. At the time of preparing this chapter, RoboCup is organized in several different leagues includ...