A dairy farmer, aged 42, was referred for admission to hospital by the consultant physician on June 19, 1957. He complained of deterioration of vision in the past 6 weeks and said that for the past 2 weeks he had been unable to read the paper. His visual acuity on admission was 4/60 in the right eye and 1/60 in the left. He stated that he drank about 8 pints of beer a day, but his wife said tha...

WASHINGTON IA'I President Nixon said Thur day night 'l11ieu regime forces have demonstrated they "can hack it " against the anti· government force , and that insures the continuing withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia. The President told a While House news conference carried live via radio and television that assessment of Thieu regime fighting ability came from Gen. Creighton Abra...

The learning of Chinese has, for years, been regarded a s a matter that requires some special skill. At present there are still many people who have notbeen reached by the results of modern linguistic research and therefore they still look upon the learning of Chinese with the same attitude that Confucius had for the supernatural. When he was asked to give his opinion concerning it, Confucius s...

Jorjanie was born in 433 AH. Elgod said: there is no exact information about his birth place and his date of birth is in the middle of 11th century. He was a student of Ebn Abi Sadegh, the famous Iranian physician. Ebn Abi Sadegh joined the two famous Iranian physicians because he was student of Avicenna for some time and at the end of his life he had a student, which was brilliant and intellig...

Professor Perry: This man came to the out-patient department on the 5th M^r ' 1957. He was 48, an industrial chemist working for a firm near Bristol. Three wee, earlier he had noticed rapidly increasing dyspnoea on effort and, for a few days, su sternal effort pain. aj His previous history is that he had a severe spinal kyphoscoliosis, said to be p?sturn in origin, since childhood. He had visit...

Jorjanie was born in 433 AH. Elgod said: there is no exact information about his birth place and his date of birth is in the middle of 11th century. He was a student of Ebn Abi Sadegh, the famous Iranian physician. Ebn Abi Sadegh joined the two famous Iranian physicians because he was student of Avicenna for some time and at the end of his life he had a student, which was brilliant and intellig...

CAIRO, Egypt (A P ) — Secretary o f State George P. Shultz said yester­ day he thinks he can w in an agree­ ment fo r w ithdraw al o f foreign troops from Lebanon, and indicated the United States w ou ld o ffer to help guarantee Israel’s security to speed an accord. “ President Reagan has sent me here to show America’s determ ina­ tion to help in the process o f peace in the M iddle East, ” Shu...

South Bend landlord Mark Kramer hired a private security company Friday to patrol his more than 150 properties after recent car break-ins. “We’ve had some car breakins and one is too many as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “I just haven’t had much cooperation with the police d epartm en t when we’ve had problems. ... Safety is very im portant, so I made the decision to hire a pri­ vate company....

This paper reports current experiments conducted on HRP-2 based research on robot autonomy. The contribution of the paper is not focused on a specific area but its objective is to highlight the critical issues that had to be solved to allow the humanoid robot HRP-2 to understand and execute the order “give me the purple ball” in an autonomous way. Such an experiment requires: simple object reco...