Lowry Alfred Doran

Jim Doran: Simulating Collective Misbelief

It appears that what the agents in a multiple agent system believe is typically partial, often wrong and often inconsistent, but that this may not be damaging to the system as a whole. Beliefs which are demonstrably wrong I call misbeliefs. Experiments are reported which have been designed to investigate the phenomenon of collective misbelief in artificial societies, and it is suggested that th...

The Coffin-Lowry syndrome.

Coffin-Lowry Syndrome

Disease characteristics. Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is characterized by severe to profound mental retardation in males. Intellect ranges from normal to profoundly retarded in heterozygous females. The facial appearance is characteristic in the affected, older male child or adult. The hands are short, soft, and fleshy, often with remarkably hyperextensible fingers that taper from wide (proximal...

Alfred Goldberg

system, where non-sexualised images, e.g. from clothes ads or even from nudist beaches get the green light, erotic posing counts as amber, and material focusing on genitals or actual acts of child abuse gets the red light. “We train the patient to move only in the green area,” Ahlers told the paper. “Amber means: Caution! Potential danger for children and for myself! Risky behaviour on the verg...

Alfred Sheen