Made in Germany. By ERNEST EDWIN WILLIAMS. Pp. I75. Price, 2s. 6d. London: William Heinemann, I896

The Chemistry and Physics of Contraceptives

CEPTIwES.-By C. I. B. Voge, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edin.). Jonathan Cape, London. Pp. 288. Illustrated. Price, 12s. 6d. [Obtainable from Messrs. Butterworth and Co. (India), Ltd. (Publishers), Calcutta.] Price, Rs. 9-6 II. CLINICAL CONTRACEPTION.?By G. M. Cox, M.B., B.S. 1933. William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd., London. Pp. ix plus 173. Illustrated. Price, 7s. 6d. III. THE HYGIENE OF MARRIAG...

Ernest William Hey Groves

Chemotherapeutic Researches on Cancer. A Review *"Chemotherapeutic Researches on Cancer," by A. T. Todd. M.D., M.R.C.P., Bristol; J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1928. Pp. 127, Price 2s. 6d.

this should be so, for the exact knowledge of the relation of a malignant growth to the organism bearing it is still lacking. 1 he chorionic hypothesis of Beard and Blair Bell of the nature of cancer is far from satisfactory. The invasive and destructive appearances in the deciduate placenta? of rodents and primates is clearly much more due to the peculiar reaction of the maternal tissues in th...

A History of Electrotherapy *An Essay on the History of Electrotherapy and Diagnosis. By Hector A. Colwell, M.B. Pp. 180. Illustrated (Heinemann, 17s. 6d. net.)

cult to realise that all these undertakings have been developed from the simple experiments and apparatus of the past, which, a few years ago, were little more than scientific playthings. The history of the genesis of this knowledge is full of interest. Electricity did not spring, like Athene of old, in the full panoply of power from the brain of one supreme genius, but each of many workers has...

Commodity Futures Price Prediction , an Artificial Intelligence Approach by Ernest

This thesis describes an attempt to predict the next value in a financial time series using various artificial techniques. The time series in question consists of daily values for commodities futures. First, an artificial neural network is used as a predictor. Then the neural network is augmented with a genetic algorithm. The genetic algorithm first is used to select the parameters for the neur...