Edward Hugh Simpson, 1922–2019

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

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Bayesian methods provide an eeective tool for shrinkage in wavelet models. An important issue in any Bayesian analysis is the elicita-tion of a prior distribution. Elicitation in the wavelet domain is considered by rst describing the structure of a wavelet model, and examining several prior distributions that are used in a variety of recent articles. Although elicitation has not been directly c...

Hugh Dickinson

Crump interprets the stories, rather than simply recounting them. Her background as a research biologist, and her fi eld experience with native peoples, give her a broad perspective on the topic. She weaves a deft blend of summary and commentary, and often returns to emergent themes. Why do particular species appear in leading roles? Why do snakes and toads so often end up both as hero and vill...

Professor Hugh Gurling MBBS

Professor Hugh Gurling, who died aged 63, was a pioneering psychiatrist who was determined to find the genes causing severe mental illness. His resolve to investigate the biological processes underlying disorders such as schizophrenia, manic depression and alcoholism was very much out of kilter with the rest of his academic colleagues when he began his quest in the late 1970s; the focus in psyc...

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