A Fruitful and Modest Scholar

A fruitful and gratifying collaboration.

Fruitful insights

leeches and earthworms. It is not yet clear just how many of these are new discoveries, though the number is in the hundreds, but it is estimated that anywhere from one to nine million ocean species remain to be found, making this haul just the tip of the iceberg. The divers also placed little structures they refer to as doll's houses, but more formally known as Autonomous Reef Monitoring Syste...

AI and Law: A fruitful synergy

AI and Law is a classic field for AI research: it poses difficult and interesting problems for AI, and its projects inform both AI and its focal domain, the law itself. This special issue reports on a range of projects, from those where the law motivates fundamental research and whose results reach beyond the legal domain, to those that partake of the benefits of techniques and wisdom from AI a...

Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish.

Because the size of the thymus in children is much larger than in adults, thymus output is widely believed to be responsible for the development of the peripheral T-cell pool during childhood. This idea is strengthened by the associations between age and the rate of T-cell reconstitution in lymphopenic patients,1 and between thymus involution and decreasing naive T-cell numbers per microliter o...

Fruitful and helpful ordinal functions

In [7] I described a method of producing ordinal notations ‘from below’ (for countable ordinals up to the Howard ordinal) and compared that method with the current popular ‘from above’ method which uses a collapsing function from uncountable ordinals. This ‘from below’ method employs a slight generalization of the normal function – the fruitful functions – and what seems to be a new class of fu...