Personal View

Personal view.

Newill is sympathetic to the problems and motivations of infertile couples who seek to reproduce through artificial insemination by donor (AID). He refutes social, genetic, and moral objections to the procedure and favors protecting the anonymity of semen donors.

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...

Dark Matter – Personal View

Traditional evidence for large amount of dark matter is based on dynamical consideration for systems with tdyn ≫ tobs. Recent observational and theoretical developments in gravitational lensing offer a much more robust determination of the mass distribution in some galaxies and their clusters, with the precision comparable to that obtainable for double stars for which tdyn < tobs, and offer ind...

A personal view

In the 20 years from its ®rst issue, BIT has been active in an area of technology with fast and thorough changes. After scanning through 20 volumes, I am surprised to detect that the published scope of BIT has remained almost unchanged, and many statements in the ®rst editorial could be published today without replacing a single word. BIT did not give up its basic principles published in the ®r...