Dentist on Mars: Personal View

Fabry dissase from the dentist view

                 Fabry disease is a rare, inherited disease with lack of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A (α-Gal)  in the cells of the body that participates in the breakdown of fat. The disease begins in early childhood, progresses slowly throughout life and results in severe damage of the kidneys, heart and central nervous system. The disease is life-threatening and if left untreated, death ...

Personal view.

Newill is sympathetic to the problems and motivations of infertile couples who seek to reproduce through artificial insemination by donor (AID). He refutes social, genetic, and moral objections to the procedure and favors protecting the anonymity of semen donors.

The programmer's view of MARS

The systematic development of fault-tolerant real-time systems with guaranteed timeliness requires an appropriate system architecture and a rigorous design methodology. We propose a system with strict separation of the issues of synchronization, dependability aspects and data transformation. Dependability aspects (error handling and redundancy management) are handled by the architecture. Synchr...

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...