Alan John Lawrence OBE

John M Goldsmid , Maurice A Kibel , Alan

Poisoning in childhood 55 Accidental child poisoning 55 Deliberate self-poisoning in older children 56 Non-accidental poisoning 56 Treatment of child poisoning 56 Chronic poisoning 57 Notes on poisoning with individual substances 58 Unintentional injuries 60 Defi ning injuries 60 Sources of data on injury 60 Mortality data 60 Morbidity data 61 Hospital admission data 61 Emergency department dat...

Professor John Edgar Morison OBE, MD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath (1912–2007)

Dr JE Morison, later to become Honorary Professor of Histopathology, died on 5 September, 2007 aged 95, after a short illness. To all his colleagues he was familiarly known as ‘John Edgar’. He gave outstanding service to the Ulster Medical Society, acting as editor of the Ulster Medical Journal for 32 years (1951-1984). Professor DAD Montgomery was his co-editor from 1975-1984. In his review of...

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

Changing course in turbulent times: an interview with David Lawrence. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

John Barwise and Lawrence Moss, Vicious Circles: On the mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena

“[T]o a greater or lesser degree, every scientific advance marks some departure from the common sense that preceded it.” These words of Irving M. Copi (1979: 195) seem to summarize the nature of Vicious Circles in the most concise fashion. Following the steps of Aczel’s (1988) ground-breaking monograph which marked a departure from the “common sense” that is attributed to classical set theory, ...