Popular Lecture

Telling the Public about Medicine *B.M.A. Popular Lecture: Bristol, Wednesday, 24th November, 1954.

Ever since there were doctors they have had to consider the problem of telling public about medicine. For many centuries it was not really a big problem. Medicine was mostly magic. It was a mixture of Babylonian numerology, Arabian chemy, medieval horoscopy and inspired water-divining, or uromancy. Ihe profession disagreed about a lot of things. Whether seven was a better dumber than fourteen. ...

The Twenty-Ninth Long Fox Memorial Lecture: Popular Misconceptions in Medical Matters

Popular and Clan-Popular b-Matchings

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties, and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of houses/agents (respectively) that can be matched to him/her/it. We want to find a matching M , called popular, for which there is no other matching M ′ such that more agents prefer M ′ to M than M to M ′, sub...

Popular astronomy.

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

"popular" Science.