A few notes on sleeping sickness

Sleeping Sickness Wakes Again

Sleeping sickness of horses was, as reeentiy as the IQSO's, the most devastating livestock disease in the United States. Horses died by the hundreds of thousands in the Midwestern United States, in California, and along the Atlantic seaboard at a period which coincided with the beginning of the sharp decline in the use of horses on the farm. Losses were so severe in some areas that the inevitab...

Sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis

A Few Notes on Statistical Learning Theory

2 Glivenko-Cantelli Classes 5 2.1 The classical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 The symmetrization procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.2 Covering numbers and complexity estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2 Combinatorial parameters and covering numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2.1 Uniform entropy and the VC dimen...

A Few Notes on Formal Balls

Using the notion of formal ball, we present a few new results in the theory of quasi-metric spaces. With no specific order: every continuous Yoneda-complete quasi-metric space is sober and convergence Choquet-complete hence Baire in its d-Scott topology; for standard quasi-metric spaces, algebraicity is equivalent to having enough center points; on a standard quasi-metric space, every lower sem...

The Sleeping Sickness of Uganda

34 cases by the same method and found the Trypanosoma in 20 cases, or 70 per cent. An examination of 12 cases of other diseases including three of Trypanosoma fever in the same way gave negative results. The matter was then taken up by" Lieutenant-Colonel David Bruce, F.n.c.s., R A M C and Dr. David N. Nabarro, who had been deputed by the Royal Society to investigate sleeping sickness, and arri...