Memoirs of a Spacewoman: Naomi Mitchison’s intergalactic education

Naomi Oreskes

Models in science may be used for various purposes: organizing data, synthesizing information, and making predictions. However, the value of model predictions is undermined by their uncertainty, which arises primarily from the fact that our models of complex natural systems are always open. Models can never fully specify the systems that they describe, and therefore their predictions are always...

Speaker: Naomi Fineberg, UK

s | 47 PL06 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Chair: Brian Dean, Australia Speaker: Naomi Fineberg, UK Title: Mapping Compulsivity: Cognitive Domains, Neural Circuitry And Treatment Fineberg Naomi A 1,2,3, Apergis-Schoute Annemieke M4, Vaghi Mathilde 4,5, Banca Paula 4,5, Chamberlain Samuel R3,4,6, Cinosi Eduardo2,7, Reid Jemma1,2, Bullmore Edward T3, Sahakian Barbara J3,4, Robbins Trevor W4,5. 1H...

Memoirs of a Software Pioneer: Part 2

Naomi Ehrich Leonard's School of Collaboration

theory and its applications to autonomous underwater vehicles. Leonard's talent lies in creatively exploring solutions to control problems through combining diverse expertise in such areas as mechanics, mathematics, computer science, and robotics with an interest in biology, oceanography, and ecology. Most recently, she has been organizing groups of robotic underwater vehicles to create an adap...

Memoirs on Paris hospitals

way to a further divergence between medical researchers, such as comparative anatomists, and clinical practitioners during the era of university reform after the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire and the ReichsdeputationshauptschluJ3 of 1803. The competing cultural politics of the German states provided another public sphere for this theory-practice division. In his conclusions Broman notes that...