There is no real point of conflict between our views and those expressed by Professor Hill. The mere agreement of the figures for P.D., considered abstractly and apart from experimental conditions, is not a proof of the existence of a Donnan equilibrium. For example, in an experiment in which the protein were omitted altogether there would also be agreement of the r.D. values, for each would be...

The epidemiological literature contains an ongoing and diversified discussion of the Hill criteria. This article offers a philosophical analysis of the criteria, showing that the criteria are related to two different views of causality. The authors argue that the criteria of strength, specificity, consistency, experiment, and biological gradient are related to a probabilistic regularity view of...

RHex is a hexapod with compliant legs and only six actuated degrees of freedom. Its ability to traverse highly fractured and unstable terrain, as well ascend and descend a particular flight of stairs has already been documented. In this paper, we describe an open loop controller that enables our small robot (Length: 51 cm, Width: 20 cm, Height: 12.7 cm. Leg length: 16 cm), to reliably climb a w...

Crowdsourcing has revolutionized the process of knowledge building on the web. Wikipedia and StackOverflow are witness to this uprising development. However, the dynamics behind the process of crowdsourcing in the domain of knowledge building is an area relatively unexplored. It has been observed that an ecosystem exists in the collaborative knowledge building environments (KBE)(Chhabra, Iyenga...

While attempting to classify partial linear spaces produced during the execution of an extension of Stinson’s hill-climbing algorithm a new problem arises, that of generating all graphical degree sequences that are diamond-free (i.e. have no diamond as subgraph) and satisfy additional constraints. We formalize this new problem, propose a constraint programming solution and list all satisfying d...