To mark the 20 th anniversary of the commencement of [email protected] (now arXiv.org), I've adapted this article from one 1 that first appeared in Physics World and was later reprinted (with permission) in Learned Publishing. This version is closer to my original draft, with some updates for this occasion, plus an astounding 2 5 added footnotes. 2 [email protected] received its first email...

A brief account of the obstacles faced during the introduction of hospital accreditation in Australia is provided, with some insight into the politics of change in health care. Some observations are made concerning critical elements of the accreditation program and the implications for the future of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.

We present the photometric and spectroscopic study of the very luminous Type IIn SN 2006gy for a time period spanning more than one year. The evolution of multiband light curves, the pseudo-bolometric (BVRI) light curve and an extended spectral sequence are used to derive constraints on the origin and evolution of the SN. A broad, bright (MR ∼ −21.7) peak characterizes all monochromatic light c...

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

We study the current best model (Krishnamurthy et al., 2017) (KDG) for question answering on tabular data evaluated over the WIKITABLEQUESTIONS dataset. Previous ablation studies performed against this model attributed the model’s performance to certain aspects of its architecture. In this paper, we find that the model’s performance also crucially depends on a certain pruning of the data used t...

The end of the last solar cycle was at least 3 years late, and to date, the new solar cycle has seen mainly weaker activity since the onset of the rising phase toward the new solar maximum. The newspapers now even report when auroras are seen in Norway. This paper is an update of our review paper written during the deepest part of the last solar minimum [1]. We update the records of solar activ...

The March 5th, 1979 gamma-ray transient has long been thought to be fundamentally di erent from the classic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). It had recurrences, pulsations, and a soft spectral component unlike classic GRBs. With the exception of the soft component reported from the Konus experiment, the unusual characteristics of March 5th were detectable primarily because it was extremely bright. Comp...