Received for publication 21 February 1978. 1Broom's Barn Experimental Station, Higham, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. 2 Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521. 3Farm Advisor, Cooperative Extension, Santa Maria, California 93456. 4 Farm Advisor, Cooperative Extension, El Centro, California 92243. Much of this work was done while the senior author was...

This paper previews the imminent flood of scientific data expected from the next generation of experiments, simulations, sensors and satellites. In order to be exploited by search engines and data mining software tools, such experimental data needs to be annotated with relevant metadata giving information as to provenance, content, conditions and so on. The case for automating the process of go...

Five registered mental nurses (R.M.N.s) were trained over two years to become behavioural psychotherapists for adult neurotic disorders. They achieved results comparable to those obtained with similar patients and methods by psychologists and psychiatrists. Similar results were maintained when over a third year the therapists were seconded to work in four hospitals and a general practice. Patie...

I would like to begin by thanking Bill White and his colleagues at the BIS for organising this conference in honour of Palle Andersen and for inviting me to participate. As some of you may know, I spent a year as a visitor to the BIS in the late 1990s, and I had the good fortune to be assigned to Palle’s unit during my secondment. In fact, I was the only member of staff assigned to Palle, so he...

Alister Hamilton II Song Han(l) H. Martin Reekie Dept. Electrical Eng. U niv. of Edinburgh We announce new CMOS synapse circuits using only three and four MOSFETsisynapse. Neural states are asynchronous pulse streams, upon which arithmetic is performed directly. Chips implementing over 100 fully programmable synapses are described and projections to networks of hundreds of neurons are made. 1 O...

In a review of the organisation of higher medical training in Britain leading to accreditation for those intending to specialize in venereology within the National Health Service suggestions are made for improving the present system. These include the enrollment of trainees in general medicine as well as in venereology to ensure a broad general experience of medicine. The establishment of an ag...

The district nursing service in Bristol comprises more than 80 nurses working on a geographical basis, of whom 52 have specific case-loads and the others act as reliefs and assistants. Requests for their help are channelled through a central office and then out to the appropriate nurse. In 1965 consideration was given as to what might be done to enable general practitioners to have closer worki...

The Branches Standing Committee of the -Royal College of Nursing in November voted in favour of making geriatric nursing a compulsory subject in the syllabus for general training. There was, however, considerable opposition to this-83 voted for and 74 against. What of this opposition? Why so large a vote against this resolution? The opponents say that the syllabus is as full as it can be now. I...

Background Data from six Western Cape secondary-level hospitals have shown that during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic (which lasted May to July 2020), total surgeries decreased by 44%, and elective 74%, due secondment nursing, anaesthetic surgical staff COVID high-care intensive-care services. At Groote Schuur Hospital, loss output over two years pandemic-related service de-escalation (202...

Andrew Read is most at home around mice, mosquitoes, malaria, and math. An evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Read has built a career working with animal and theoretical models to study how pathogens develop drug resistance. Yet after 30 years in the laboratory, he decided to investigate a different biological system: doctors and patients. Read sought a un...