Preliminary statement. When I first wrote my lecture notes for the Part II course, Sarah Shea–Simonds very kindly typed the core notes in TeX, and I added to them bit by bit, again in TeX. However, my style was still rather like a telegram, partly as I was trying to save on paper. Now that I am retired, I have time to retype the notes in LaTeX. I have tried to make the style rather more ‘flowin...

These lecture notes are based on my course from the summer semester 2015. I kept the numbering and the contents of the results presented in the lectures (except for minor corrections and improvements). Typically, the proofs and calculations in the notes are a bit shorter than those given in the lecture. Moreover, the drawings and many additional, mostly oral remarks from the lectures are omitte...

Streaming video on the World Wide Web is being widely deployed, and workplace training and distance education are key applications. The ability to annotate video on the Web can provide significant added value in these and other areas. Written and spoken annotations can provide ‘in context’ personal notes and can enable asynchronous collaboration among groups of users. With annotations, users ar...

Added: 25 Apr 2013) The need for a generative theory (Updated 19 Apr 2013) Summary so far The need for virtual machinery as well as physical/chemical machinery The need for meta-semantic competences Developmental trajectories in physical and virtual machinery Autism: A Different Sort of Information-Processing What does all this have to do with Nadia? Note added 30 Mar 2013: Low level visual pro...

These notes are an updated version of lectures given at the Cours de Troisi eme Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande (Lausanne, Switzerland) in June 1989. We thank the Troisi eme Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande and Professor Michel Droz for kindly giving permission to reprint these notes. The following notes are based on my course \Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Mechanics: Foundati...

Sections 1 through 5 of these notes are from a series of lectures I gave in the summer of 1989. The object of these lectures was to give a reasonably self-contained proof of the Spectral Theorem for bounded normal operators on an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space. They are aimed at second year graduate students who have at least had a bit of functional analysis. Since the talks, and in...

These notes are my continuing effort to provide a sort of working mathematician’s guide to the derived category and perverse sheaves. They began as handwritten notes for David Mond and his students, and then I decided to type them for possible inclusion as an appendix in a paper. Now, however, these notes represent more of a journal of my understanding of this machinery; whenever I believe that...

BACKGROUND There are no empirically-grounded criteria or tools to define or benchmark the quality of outpatient clinical documentation. Outpatient clinical notes document care, communicate treatment plans and support patient safety, medical education, medico-legal investigations and reimbursement. Accurately describing and assessing quality of clinical documentation is a necessary improvement i...

BACKGROUND When the Swedish version of Open Notes, an electronic health record (EHR) service that allows patients online access, was introduced in hospitals, primary care, and specialized care in 2012, psychiatric care was exempt. This was because psychiatric notes were considered too sensitive for patient access. However, as the first region in Sweden, Region Skåne added adult psychiatry to it...