Legislation gives minister more powers

Identiication for Control : Closing the Loop Gives More Accurate Controllers

We compare open loop versus closed loop identiication when the identiied model is used for control design, and when the system itself belongs to the model class, so that only variance errors are relevant. For three diierent control design criteria (minimum variance, LQG and model reference control) we show that, under those conditions, a better performance is achieved by closing the loop during...

MAKING ECOLOGICAL VALUES MAKE SENSE: toward more operationalizable ecological legislation

Value claims about ecological populations, communities, and systems appear everywhere in literature put out by leading environmental advisory institutions. This essay clarifies the content of such normatively significant value claims in two main steps. In it, I first outline the conception of ecological entities, functionality, and properties, I argue is operative in the background of modern ec...

RNs seek broader prescribing powers in quest for more autonomy.

Message from the Minister

cause of mental health by creating a greater understanding of the nature of mental disorders and of the possibilities of prevention and of help for those who suffer from them. A lively and well-informed journal is invaluable for stimulating the interest of the public as a whole as well as helping people already actively engaged in work for mental health, and I wish every success to this new ven...

Mad minister disease?

Nearly ten years ago, a hitherto unknown neurological condition, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), appeared in British cows. It was labelled ‘mad cow disease’, because of the strange combination of fear and shambling gait shown by its victims. As more cases came to light, BSE was found to be similar to scrapie in sheep and it was suggested that cows were infected by eating feedstuffs cont...