Donald E. Low1 and Gerald D. Wright2 1University of Toronto and 2McMaster University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and 1,2Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Despite legislation in the United Kingdom (UK) targeted at controlling the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, the farming industry commonly uses these drugs therapeutically, prophylactically, and/or for ...

There have been many published studies aiming to identify temporal changes in river flow time series, most of which use monotonic trend tests such as the Mann–Kendall test. Although robust to both the distribution of the data and incomplete records, these tests have important limitations and provide no information as to whether a change in variability mirrors a change in magnitude. This study d...

For students of medieval proportional systems who lack such documentary evidence as James Ackerman had, in relative abundance, for his groundbreaking 1949 study of the Cathedral of Milan, the only choice has been to turn to the buildings. Yet Ackerman warned that such an exercise was destined to fail: ‘the analysis of remaining monuments,’ he wrote, ‘provides insufficient evidence for [the] tas...

It is doubtful whether I shall be able to meet the high standards set by previous speakers. I shall not prove deep theorems. I shall not present astonishing new results. Instead of this I shall try to catch your attention by a fictitious dialogue. I shall employ the help of imaginary discussants like the “Bayesian” or the “experimentalist.” A “chairman” will determine who speaks next, but he sh...

It may have been Chebyshev who said that in the olden days the mathematical problems were posed by the gods, later by the demi-gods (Gauss, etc.) and nowadays by the technician. Modern demands by technology are growing and often (paradoxically) lamented by designers of courses and syllabi. Arguments that fundamentals have to be established rst, leave the fear that applications and philosophical...