The Centenary Dinner of the Bristol MedicoChirurgical Society took place at the Esso Motor Hotel, Hambrook, on Friday, 26th April, 1974, and was attended by nearly one hundred and fifty members and guests. The Guest of Honour was Sir John Stallworthy, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Society's other guests were Lady Stallworthy, Councillor C. Hebblethwaite, Deputy Lord Mayor o...

This paper summarizes over a decade of research on natural language dialogue with robotic agents, and their required underlying knowledge representation and reasoning abilities. The major features that characterize robots as spoken dialogue partners with humans, are: 1) the robot and human share a perceptual eld containing objects they can both point to and manipulate ; 2) robots are actors as ...

We report mapping of translocation breakpoints using a microarray. We used complex RNA to compare normal hexaploid wheat (17 000Mb genome) to a ditelosomic stock missing the short arm of chromosome 1B (1BS) and wheat-rye translocations that replace portions of 1BS with rye 1RS. Transcripts detected by a probe set can come from all three Triticeae genomes in ABD hexaploid wheat, and sequences of...

Received: 18 September 2005 Revised: 23 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 Among the many memories I have of Claudio there is one I would like to tell. Many many years ago, probably in the mid-1980s, we were having dinner with other people at the house of a mutual friend in Milan. We were playing a game – one of those after-dinner psychological party games. Each of us was asked to write...

BACKGROUND Unhealthy eating has been found to be associated with the prevalence of depressive symptoms. However, prospective evidence of the combined effects of unhealthy eating and depressive symptoms has not been reported. This study aimed to elucidate the prospective relationship between habitual unhealthy eating habits and depressive symptoms. METHODS A 2-year prospective cohort study of ...

The people and places children eat with can influence food consumption. This study investigates the people and places Swiss school-aged children ate with over a 7-day period and analyses the effects of eating at home with family on food consumption. Children completed a 7-day food diary documenting the foods they consumed, the people with whom they ate, and the place where they ate. Analyses we...

W e appreciate the comment of Wolever (1) regarding our study (2) and that we performed a much more detailed, well-controlled, and sophisticated study. We also appreciate the comment regarding the details about the composition of the test meals in the study. Thus, to allow comparison of our results with others in the literature, we provide the following clarifications. The mean weights of carbo...