Dying to Run

Dying to Run

L ooking back to high school, I really didn't enjoy running. It was simply a means to get in shape for sports like football, basketball, and baseball. The only races I enjoyed back then were the shot-putters relay, which was an added feature of our track meets. Our coach would usually challenge the opposing team's shot-put group to a relay race with the shot used as the baton. It was a good lau...

Time to legalise assisted dying?

Editor—Delamothe states that the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has a neutral stance on the issue of assisted dying. This is no longer correct. At a meeting of the college council in June 2005 it was decided, by a clear majority, that the college could no longer maintain a neutral stance on the subject of assisted dying. To determine a definitive position on whether to oppose any...

Run-to-Run Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Run-to-run Optimization via Constraint Control

Run-to-run optimization methodologies exploit the repetitive nature of batch processes to find the optimal operating policy in the presence of uncertainty. For the class of batch optimization problems where the solution is determined by terminal constraints, the update of the decision variables towards their optimal values is realized using a constraint control scheme. The methodology is adapte...

Dying

Professor Hinton is a psychiatrist who has made careful studies of the reactions of dying people, the awareness they have that they are dying, and the ways in which their doctors and nurses may help to bring them solace. His original work is deservedly much esteemed. It has lost nothing by presentation in this volume together with additional information on the circumstances, customs and attitud...