throughout his long life, man has always imagined creating a creature with the same capabilities of his own or much higher than that; a creature in his service. at the end of the 20th century, gaining the logical and mathematical model for man’s actions and reactions has caused man to be the creator of a virtual intelligence himself; the intelligence by which a machine can think like a man, hav...

Andrew Donald Booth (1918-2009) was the leader of a team of computer pioneers at Birkbeck College in the University of London, UK. Booth worked with limited resources, both human and financial, and concentrated on building smaller machines. This paper presents an outline of his career in the UK which, the author believes, has not received the attention it deserves in comparison to a number of h...

Widespread use of asbestos over the last century has left a terrible legacy of lung disease. Doctors knew of the health risks long ago, but almost nothing was done to protect workers and the public. Some aspects of nanotechnology may have risks similar to asbestos. Keywords—Asbestos, causation, nanotechnology.

Convention terminology. There follows a compilation of numerical abnormalities of chromosome constitution, again in order 1 to 22, X and Y. There is a table of syndromes associated with breakage syndromes. Associations of chromosome anomalies and cancer cell lines have been excluded. The preface contains seven tables, listing chromosome involved in polymorphisms, breakage, and aneuploidy syndro...

The present paper reviews the development of some of our ideas of how physiological stimuli on the gastrointestinal tract contribute to the onset of satiety. The various signals originating from the gut caused by stretch, osmo-concentration or specific chemical stimuli must be relayed to the brain, either neurally or hormonally, to be integrated with post-absorptive signals from other sites inc...

In the common law of negligence, an individual breaches the duty of due care if she fails to act as would a “reasonable man” under the circumstances. A natural question, first posed by Rubinstein [8], is whether the “reasonable man” can be derived from the views of actual agents. Rubinstein introduced an axiomatic model and showed that there does not exist a non-dictatorial aggregation method w...