My brief article (Lynn, 2001) on hidden observers and informed consent seems to have jangled a raw nerve among a group of commentators whose names are a virtual “who’s who” of the proponents of the use of hypnosis for memory recovery and of ego-state and dissociation-based therapies and theories. Dr. Kluft is right: “Proponents of paradigms often conduct themselves as if they were the agents of...

given the unmet needs in cancer treatment, extensive research and development has evolved to offer therapies for cancers to extend survival and minimize side effects. immunotherapy, an approach to harness normal immune cells against cancers not only today’s breakthrough but in fact the future of oncology therapeutics. taking into consideration the recent approvals for new lines of therapy inclu...

In mixtures-of-experts (ME) models, "experts" of generalized linear models are combined, according to a set of local weights called the "gating function". The invariant transformations of the ME probability density functions include the permutations of the expert labels and the translations of the parameters in the gating functions. Under certain conditions, we show that the ME systems are iden...

The mixtures-of-experts (ME) methodology provides a tool of classii-cation when experts of logistic regression models or Bernoulli models are mixed according to a set of local weights. We show that the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of the mixtures-of-experts architecture is bounded below by the number of experts m, and is bounded above by O(m 4 s 2), where s is the dimension of the input. ...

Robert Burns's poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook, 1785, tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with Death. The Grim Reaper is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’, a local schoolteacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is successfully thwarting his efforts to gather victims. The poet fears that the local gravedigger will be unemployed but Death reassures him tha...

considering the role of witness in the different sciences of language and literature and the importance of the muallaqat in arabic literature and the importance of explanations of these poems, in the present study, it is intended to study the method of commentators n applying the the different evidence of the quran, hadith, poetry, proverb, descriptive - analytical method was employed. the resu...

A substantial public choice literature exists on the generic phenomenon of government failure in advanced western representative democracies. However, much less attention has been focussed on this question in the specific context of local governance, with the important exceptions of Bailey (1999) and Boyne (1998). In this paper we advance the argument that not only is government failure an esse...