L. P. Garrod

Garrod, Galton, and clinical medicine.

Human genetics must acknowledge many sources, but the earliest and perhaps most symbolic are Archibald Garrod and Francis Galton. I would like to begin with the contributions of these two men and what they stood for, because a look at human genetics in the context of the clinician suggests that it is strongly garrodian, but only weakly galtonian. On the other hand, there are strong pressures ad...

Archibald Garrod and the individuality of man

One of the book's strengths is to discuss less-cited examples: the Shah of Persia, for instance, whose plans to modernize his country foundered with his leukaemia, concealed from all except the French secret service (was this why France supported the Ayatollah Khomeini?); or Ferdinand Marcos, whose systemic lupus erythematosus and renal failure led to a repressive regime largely dominated by hi...

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operators on L ( L p ) and ` p - strictly singular operators

A classification of weakly compact multiplication operators on L(Lp), 1 < p < ∞, is given. This answers a question raised by Saksman and Tylli in 1992. The classification involves the concept of `p-strictly singular operators, and we also investigate the structure of general `p-strictly singular operators on Lp . The main result is that if an operator T on Lp , 1 < p < 2, is `p-strictly singula...

Robustness of weighted L p - depth and L p - median

Lp-norm weighted depth functions are introduced and the local and global robustness of these weighted Lp-depth functions and their induced multivariate medians are investigated via influence function and finite sample breakdown point. To study the global robustness of depth functions, a notion of finite sample breakdown point is introduced. The weighted Lp-depth functions turn out to have the s...