Federalism: Evaluating the Founders' Design

The Founders of Neurology

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

The founders of child neurology

STEPHEN ASHWAL (ed.), Thefounders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9). Ashwal has undertaken the mammoth task of bringing together biographical sketches, written by over 100 medical specialists, of 124 individuals who have made important contributio...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.

Hackers and Founders

ISO17799 (formerly BS17799) is a standard for heuristic security management in organizations, and ISO20000 (formerly BS15000) is the ITIL reference document. Both of these are high-level, handwaving guidelines about service and business operations. True enough, they pay lip service to configuration management, but the configuration management they refer to is not the same as discussed in ;login...

Evaluating the design based approach

The design based approach has been repeatedly advocated by Sloman as a methodology for Artiicial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. It is intended to be used as an approach to the study of complex control systems such as the mind (a view of mind which diiers from the standard computational one). This paper summarises this approach together with its supporting philosophical underpinning by draw...