David Pollard, The True Story of Lu Xun

Decomposition results - the true story

In this note we identify a simple setup from which one may easily infer various decomposition results for queues with interruptions as well as càdlàg processes with certain secondary jump inputs. In particular, this can be done for processes with stationary or stationary and independent increments. It resulted from an attempt to understand these kind of results after having detected an error in...

A true case story

Autism is not generally recognized as a condition which can be bio-medically influenced. As of today, there are no biomarkers for autism that are recognized by traditional medicine. Treating autism medically is a difficult and hopeless task according to official guidelines (even though it is seldom written in official documents). Parents of many children who have or had an ASD diagnosis have wi...

Telling the True Story of Biology

Book Reviews another way to teach science—smaller, less spectacu-Telling the True Story of Biology lar, and until now, less-respected by the marketplace. That other way is to tell stories. I am convinced that all great teachers (and the Ameri-Discovery—Windows on the Life Sciences can scientific community has had its share), are storytell-By R.A. Lewis ers. I would also suggest that the most su...

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Richard Preston's timing could not have been better. In August 1994, only a few weeks before his new book appeared in bookstores, alarming national newspaper headlines informed the public of a scientist becoming infected with the exotic Sabia arenavirus after a laboratory centrifuge accident at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit. Following the scientist's relatively rapid recovery under ribavirin...

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