ISSN 0817-8542 ISBN 0 642 241 98 8 One of the most difficult areas of criminal justice policy lies in providing appropriate legal mechanisms to reflect the transition from the age of childhood innocence through to maturity and full responsibility under the criminal law. Along with specialised institutions such as Children’s Courts and juvenile detention centres, specific legal rules have been d...

Accuracy arguments are the en vogue route in epistemic justifications of probabilism and further norms governing rational belief. These arguments often depend on the fact that the employed inaccuracy measure is strictly proper. I argue controversially that it is ill-advised to assume that the employed inaccuracy measures are strictly proper and that strictly proper statistical scoring rules are...

A technique of machine learning, inductive logic programming implemented in the program GOLEM, has been applied to three problems in structural molecular biology. These problems are: the prediction of protein secondary structure; the identification of rules governing the arrangement of beta-sheets strands in the tertiary folding of proteins; and the modelling of a quantitative structure activit...

The Medicare rules governing the supervision of diagnostic tests have changed over time, as have the skills and training of radiologist assistants, who may have the education and clinical skills to deliver surgical and invasive procedures often performed as part of a radiology practice. However, for the purposes of Medicare coverage, radiologist assistants are not yet recognized as independent ...

The anisotropic advantageous properties of fiber reinforced composites may not be fully exploited unless the fibers are properly placed in their optimal spatial orientations. This paper investigates application of Cellular Automata (CA) for curvilinear fiber design of composite laminae for in-plane responses. CA use local rules to update both field and design variables in an iterative scheme ti...

The responses of a neuron to stimuli from one sensory modality can be profoundly influenced by inputs from other sensory modalities. The present experiments demonstrate that the nature and the magnitude of these multisensory interactions depend on the positions of the stimuli in relation to their respective receptive fields. The spatial rules governing these interactions underscore the signific...

We use QCD sum rules to calculate the hadronic matrix elements governing the rare decays B ! K` + ` ? and B ! K ` + ` ? induced by the avour changing neutral current b ! s transition. We also study relations among semileptonic and rare B ! K () decay form factors. The analysis of the invariant mass distribution of the lepton pair in B ! K () ` + ` ? and of the angular asymmetry in B ! K ` + ` ?...

There are no well-known properties in regulatory DNA analogous to those in coding sequences; their spatial location is not regular, the consensus regulatory elements are often degenerate and there are no understandable rules governing their evolution. This makes it difficult to recognize regulatory regions within genome. We review developments in the statistical characterization of regulatory r...

That formula is also the governing equation that rules optical lithography. R is the measure for resolution, or minimal feature width, which we want to resolve. In traditional semiconductor manufacturing, integrated circuit (IC) layout patterns are printed onto a silicon wafer using ‘light’ of a certain wavelength λ, projecting a mask or reticle through a lens with a certain opening angle, defi...