Beyond the school gates

Beyond Hospital Gates

This paper is an attempt to pass on to others the encouragement gained by a visit recently paid to selected places in Belgium and Holland to see some of the methods there employed for the care of mental patients boarded out in the community. The expenses of the journey were generously met by a donor, whose anonymity concealed, we are aware, a very active concern for mental welfare work, who thu...

Computations beyond Exponentiation Gates and Applications

In Arithmetic Circuit Complexity the standard operations are {+,×}. Yet, in some scenarios exponentiation gates are considered as well (see e.g. [BB98, ASSS12, Kay12, KSS14]). In this paper we study the question of efficiently evaluating a polynomial given an oracle access to its power. That is, beyond an exponentiation gate. As applications, we show that: • A reconstruction algorithm for a cir...

Checking Delay-Insensitivity: 104 Gates and Beyond

Wire and gate delays are accounted to have equal, or nearly equal, effect on circuit behavior in modern design techniques. This paper introduces a new approach to verify circuits whose behavior is independent of component delays (delay-insensitive). It shows that for a particular way of implementing a delay-insensitive circuit, through a Null Convention Logic methodology, the complexity of the ...

Beyond the borders: the gates and fences of neuroimmune interaction

Historically, in most organisms the nervous, immune, and the endocrine systems have been studied as independent components. However, during the last decades, growing evidence supports the notion that these are three parts of a unique system, the neuro-immune-endocrine system (Besedosky and Rey, 2007). Both clinical observations and experimental data obtained from animals reveal a close relation...

Relationship-centered care: beyond the finishing school.