uncaned boys. 26 per cent. of the boys studied had been classified as delinquent in police records by a date at which their mean age was 15 years 4 months. Delinquent boys were significantly heavier smokers than non-delinquents, but the difference was not as marked as that between caned and uncaned boys. There was an apparent decline in smoking over a year. This may be due to errors of recall b...

My primary research is in the representation of semantic information and its use in natural language processing applications. The meaning of a sentence is a central aspect of natural language understanding, yet an elusive one, since there is no accepted methodology for determining meaning. There is not even a consensus on criteria for distinguishing word senses, as can easily be seen by compari...

This is the first of two lectures by Phil Green on “Sequence Assembly.” Yeast and some of the bacterial genomes have already been completely sequenced. There is also a rapidly growing body of known human sequence. All this has been because of our ability to read DNA. This lecture discusses the shotgun strategy for rapid DNA sequencing, and begins discussion of sequence assembly algorithms (to b...

Herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth is a widespread issue in row-crop production in the Midsouthern US. Palmer amaranth is commonly found on roadside habitats in this region, but little is known on the degree of herbicide resistance in these populations. Herbicide resistance in roadside Palmer amaranth populations can represent the spread of an adaptive trait across a selective landscape. A lar...

Lengthening but not shortening history of paraspinal muscle spindles in the low back alters their 1 dynamic sensitivity 2 3 4 5 6 Dong-Yuan Cao and Joel G. Pickar* 7 8 9 Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, Palmer College of Chiropractic,741 Brady Street, 10 Davenport, IA 52803,USA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 * Corresponding author: 22 Dr. Joel G. Pickar 23 Palmer Center for Chiropract...

In the past, we have demonstrated how fuzzy concepts can easily be used in the Johnson algorithm to manage uncertain scheduling on two-machine flow shops. This paper extends application to fuzzy flow shops with more than two machines. A new fuzzy heuristic flow-shop scheduling algorithm (the fuzzy Palmer algorithm) is then designed since optimal solutions seem unnecessary for uncertain environm...