These notes comment on Williams’ fundamental essay Notes on Conditional Previsions, written as a research report in 1975 and published in the present issue. Basic aspects of that work are discussed, including historical background and relevance to the foundations of probability; examples are supplied to help understanding.

BACKGROUND Research on resident workloads has focused primarily on the quantity of hours worked, rather than the content of those hours or the variability among residents. We hypothesize that there are statistically significant variations in resident workloads and better understanding of workload intensity could improve resident education. METHODS The Stanford Children's Health research datab...

This are the notes of a lecture course held by P. Michor at the University of Vienna in the academic year 1992/1993, written by Konstanze Rietsch. The lecture course was held again in the academic year 1996/97 and the notes were corrected and enlarged by P. Michor.

These lecture notes sketch a set of techniques that are useful in solving representative agent dynamic stochastic optimization problems. I make no attempt at a systematic overview of the many possible technical choices; instead, the notes present a very specific set of methods and techniques. Associated with these notes is a set of Mathematica programs that solve the problems described in the t...

Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down - a "Z-path" - though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupings of panels that deny a Z-path of reading. To examine how layouts pressure readers to cho...

These lecture notes sketch a set of techniques that are useful in solving representative agent dynamic stochastic optimization problems. I make no attempt at a systematic overview of the many possible technical choices; instead, the notes present a very specific set of methods and techniques. Associated with these notes is a set of Mathematica programs that solve the problems described in the t...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the current study was to analyze written language of native Hebrew-speaking medical residents, as reflected in admission notes and discharge letters for patients admitted to medical wards in a 700-bed university hospital. METHODS Twenty admission notes and 20 discharge letters written by 40 native Hebrew- speaking residents with at least one year experience were ana...

INTRODUCTION A patient note is a clinical document, written by a physician, describing a patient under his or her care. Various kinds of notes document the patient’s status over time, and comprise the official medical record for legal and billing purposes. Composing these notes encompasses several disparate, but interdependent subtasks. Physicians gather and review previous and current patient ...

These notes written by V. Nitica are based on the course given by A. Katok at the Pennsyl-vania State University in the Spring of 1994.