Margaret Kornitzer. The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d. Margaret Gill's delightful illustrations make this a pleasant book to hand to any young child. The pictures convey the spirit of the text which describes an ordinary couple and the way they adopted two children to complete their family. Even the social worker is shown in a sympathetic light and the subject of adoption is treated without sentimentalit...

event in medical and legal circles in India. This well-known volume needs little recommendation. Each successive edition since its first appearance in 1838 has commanded a wide circulation, and the book has now taken the place that once was held by Norman Chever's delightful volume. Each successive edition has been an improvement, but in no edition have the changes and additions been so numerou...

Egill Skallagrímsson, a tenth-century Viking, was a colourful warrior poet and an early anti-hero. The thickness and strength of his skull and his very ugly facial features with a prominent mandible have suggested to some authorities that Egill suffered from Paget's disease of bone. However, Paget's bone, while thickened, lacks structural integrity, infrequently involves the mandible and is pro...

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The argument for an urgent rethink When I (AS) was a child, my grandmother used to say “Don’t pull an ugly face, because if the wind changes, your face will become stuck like that”. I don’t know what evidence my grandmother had for this advice, but as a neuroscientist who studies the effects of diet on the hypothalamic control of appetite and body weight, I say “Don’t eat an ugly diet or let yo...

Optimization problems in various fields of science and engineering should be solved using appropriate methods. Stochastic search-based optimization algorithms are a widely used approach for solving problems. In this paper, new algorithm called “the good, the bad, ugly” optimizer (GBUO) is introduced, based on effect three members population updates. proposed GBUO, moves towards good member avoi...