Forty-Three Historical Programmes

Comparative analysis of mental health legislation in forty-three countries: a discussion of historical trends.

A Historical Review of Forty Years of Research on CMAC

The Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller (CMAC) is an influential brain-inspired computing model in many relevant fields. Since its inception in the 1970s, the model has been intensively studied and many variants of the prototype, such as KCMAC, MCMAC, and LCMAC, have been proposed. This review article focus on how the CMAC model is gradually developed and refined to meet the demand of fast...

Features Foresight launches three sensor programmes

The government-sponsored Foresight programme, begun four years ago with the aim of bringing together industrial companies with academic and research organisations to improve the competitiveness of the British economy, has now entered a second round of activity focusing on developing its range of tasks. In the area of sensing technology three themes are being taken up for collaboration by Sira d...

Forty-three Years of Progress in Pet Bird Nutrition

For much of the last forty-three years, avian veterinarians have been occupied with developing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for companion birds. Birds have often been presented in an emergency condition, and many of these birds died. In the late 70's, the most conspicuous causes were related to importation (eg, infectious diseases, parasites, immunosuppression from overuse of antibioti...

Calendrical Calculations, II: Three Historical Calendars

From a chronological point of view the substitution for the mean calendaric system of one based on the true movements of the sun and moon, was anything but an improvement, as it destabilized the foundations of the time reckoning. Indeed, the system may have had the charm of adapting daily life as nearly as the astronomical knowledge permitted to the movement of the heavenly bodies, but on the o...