^rst Year the Board of the Faculty has concerned itself with establishing general practiin ^search and with post-graduate study. Dr. Mallett, the member for research, has put Dr. ^CVTt^meA Faculty Advisory Panel has been formed, with Professor Milnes-Walker and borne' Gale from Bristol University. After much preliminary work by Dr. Mallett of Wimof ~rHickson of Chippenham, and Dr. Cookson of Hu...

, 7th Tea in Library followed by Discussion of Cases. dicin?Vy at^ P-mJoint Meeting with B.M.A. F. E. Camps, Esq., m.d. (Reader in Forensic (Exet e' University of London), "Truth is stranger than Fiction". 2ist South-Western Dinner). Uth ?)0V'' at 8.15 p.m.: Clinico-Pathological Demonstration. 16th T eC-> at ^-I5 P-m-: Clinical Meeting at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital. p.m.: Dr. H...

The last French census (1999) found that almost all over-60s had been married only once. Both divorce and new union formation are uncommon at these ages, and conjugal life is most likely to be ended by the death of the lifetime partner. But probability of spousal loss is not the same for men and women. Excess male mortality coupled with partner age differentials (wives averaging three years you...

29th Oct., at 3.30 p.m.: Professor Max Rosenheim, c.b.e., m.d., f.r.c.p. "The Treatment Nephritis". (A combined meeting with the B.M.A. (Exeter and South Western)). Dinner19th Nov., at 8.15 p.m.: Jack Simpson, Esq., m.d., m.r.c.p., "Confusion and Dementia in Elderly". 10th Dec., at 8.15 p.m.: Clinico-pathological Demonstration. f 7th Jan., at 8.15 p.m.: Dr. Sheila Sherlock, m.d., f.r.c.p., "Adv...

On 10th October Dr. E. G. Brabbeer, f.f.a.r.c.s., was installed as President for the current session and gave an address on "Advances in Anaesthesia in the last thirty years". Professor C. Bruce Perry, m.d., f.r.c.p., was elected President for the Session 1957-58. 14th Nov.: Clinical Meeting at Southmead Hospital. 12th Dec.: Sir Horace Evans, K.c.v.o., f.r.c.p., "Hypertension and Artery Disease...

Multi-agent simulation was used to study several styles of leadership in small societies. Populations of 50 and100 agents inhabited a bounded landscape containing a fixed number of food sources. Agents moved about the landscape in search of food, mated, produced offspring, and died either of hunger or at a predetermined maximum age. Leadership models focused on the collection and redistribution...

A definition of language is proposed in which language is a lowbandwidth channel that can increase agent rewards in a reinforcement learning setting, and in which agents can learn to produce language and teach it to other agents. Societies of agents are being modeled by economists to understand economic instability and other non-equilibrium phenomena. I hypothesize a divergent distribution of i...

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Linking Individuals and Societies How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest case of one population and one variable, we systematically introduce ad...