641 Competition is at the heart of every step we make during our careers as research scientists. We first compete for a place in a laboratory to carry out our PhD research. We then compete for postdoctoral fellowships. And as heads of laboratories, in a way that is perhaps unique to research, we compete for funds to finance the experiments performed in our laboratories. It is not an exaggeratio...

THIS book, 240 pages crammed full of obstetric facts and figures, is written by two doctors who, after junior obstetric hospital posts, pursued careers in other areas of medicine. It is constructed along traditional lines with introductory chapters on anatomy, physiology and applied embryology. There follow accounts of antenatal care, abnormal pregnancy and pregnancyrelated systemic illness. In...

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, US, xvii + 550 pp.— therein: Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Mathematics in and behind Russell’s logicism, and its reception. Pp. 51–83. Richard Cartwright. Russell and Moore: 1895–1905. Pp. 108–127. Peter Hylton. The theory of descriptions. Pp. 202–240. Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine. Bertrand Russell’s logicism. Pp. 171–201. Michael Beaney. R...

pharmaceutical sector in the past decade is well documented1. Many of these analyses have attempted to identify specific causes leading to such questionable performance metrics, as well as suggest possible solutions1-5. In the latter case it has involved consideration of better technology investments; build-out of IT, bioinformatics and knowledge management tools; creation of efficient decision...

Needs-based Companion Dog José María Blanco Calvo (1294148) Man-Machine Interaction Group Faculty of EEMCS Delft University of Technology September 2007 Graduation committee: Dr. drs. L.J.M. Rothkrantz Ir. H.J.A.M. Geers Dr. ir. C.A.P.G. van der Mast This thesis describes a project carried out at the Man Machine Interaction research group which is part of Mediamatics at the Delft University of ...

An extended innnite companion matrix ~ C 1 (D) and an innnite companion matrix C 1 (D) for a (nonmonic in general) matrix polynomial D is introduced and the nite companion matrix C(D) is generalized to the nonmonic case. These matrices generalize all properties of the innnite and nite companion (Frobenius) matrix corresponding to a scalar polynomial. In particular, C 1 (D) is a controllability ...

This Science Fiction Prototype explores both the possibilities of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Artificial Intelligence and writing autobiographical Science Fiction. The paper proceeds in three parts. The context for the story is introduced in the first section, outlining the particularly personal circumstances from which the story has been written. In the second section the story is presented...

ABSTRACT The merging black hole (BH) binaries GW190412, GW190814, and GW190521 from the third LIGO/VIRGO observing run exhibit some extraordinary properties, including highly asymmetric masses, significant spin, component mass in ‘mass gap’. These features can be explained if one or both components of binary are remnants previous mergers. In this paper, we explore hierarchical mergers multiple ...

Despite much research on companion robots and affective virtual characters, a comprehensive discussion on a generic architecture is lacking. We compile a list of possible requirements of a companion robot and propose a generic architecture based on this list. We explain this architecture to uncover issues that merit discussion. The architecture can be used as a framework for programming compani...