BACKGROUND In the 1830s in England, there was a great cultural interest in the collection and publishing of all kinds of statistics. The Council of the Statistical Society of London (founded in 1834) commissioned one of its Fellows, Dr William Farr, to investigate and prepare a report on the mortality of patients in the county asylums, with the mortality in a large number of proprietary houses ...

Robert Brodrick Boston College 
 This paper advances the claim that the perceived rift between theology and scientific cosmology is not merely due to the advances of modern science but also to particular philosophical and theological developments in the realms of epistemology and the social imaginary. In light of this perspective, the author suggests that the recent work done regarding scientif...

Suppose that each vertex of a graph independently chooses a colour uniformly from the set {1, . . . , k}; and let Si be the random set of vertices coloured i. Farr shows that the probability that each set Si is stable (so that the colouring is proper) is at most the product of the k probabilities that the sets Si separately are stable. We give here a simple proof of an extension of this result.

CoInDiVinE is a tool for parallel distributed model checking of interactions among components in hierarchical component-based systems. The tool extends the DiVinE framework with a new input language (component-interaction automata) and a property specification logic (CI-LTL). As the language differs from the input language of DiVinE, our tool employs a new state space generation algorithm that ...

Dr. Jeffrey Flier delivered the 25th memorial Lee E. Farr Lecture on May 8, 2012, at the culmination of the annual Student Research Day at the Yale School of Medicine, during which 92 students presented their research as posters and five were honored for their outstanding student theses. YJBM traditionally publishes the abstracts of outstanding student theses, and those of the recent years 2009...