Jubilee Hope: my experience on Lake Victoria with Vine Trust

SIL VER JUBILEE OF MY DISPUTE WITH FISHERl

After publishing Sir Ronald Fisher's article [1], the Editors of the Operations Research Society of Japan called my attention to Sir Ronald's uncomplimentary references to my work and offered to publish a reply. The first expressions of disapproval of my work were published by Fisher [2J in 1935. During the intervening quarter of a century Sir Ronald honored my ideas with his incessant attentio...

My Experience with Smallpox

‘Trust my doctor, trust my pancreas’: trust as an emergent quality of social practice

BACKGROUND Growing attention is being paid to the importance of trust, and its corollaries such as mistrust and distrust, in health service and the central place they have in assessments of quality of care. Although initially focussing on doctor-patient relationships, more recent literature has broadened its remit to include trust held in more abstract entities, such as organisations and instit...

Performance of Meris Products in Lake Victoria

The newly finished ESA project MERIS Lakes included activity in Lake Victoria to show the potensial for monitoring this eutrophic African Lake. In this study an evaluation of how different processors perform in Lake Victoria. Lack of proper validation data makes it only possible to have a preliminary assessment of the performance of the product algal_2, suspended material and the signal depth, ...

The water balance of Lake Victoria

This paper presents new calculations of Lake Victoria's water balance. Evaporation is estimated using both the Penman formula and the energy balance approach, and sensitivity studies are performed to determine the influence of input data on the estimates. Rainfall over the lake is estimated from catchment rainfall using a relationship between the two that was derived using satellite data. The r...