Professeur W. F. Osborne (1873-1950)

Major F. W. Cragg

It is with the deepest regret that we learn of the tragic death of Major F. W. Cragg, i.m.s., from typhus fever at Lahore on the 23rd of April, 1924. Major Cragg's death adds another name to the long but brilliant list of scientific investigators who have lost their lives in the prosecution of medical enquiries for the benefit of humanity. He died as truly on active service as did any officer k...

F/W e+e- INTERACTIONS*

INTRODUCTION The field of e+e-interactions has provided a great deal of excitement in the past few years. 1-9 Primarily, interest has centered around the reaction +-ee-hadrons. This reaction is particularly attractive because we believe in electromagnetic perturbation theory, which implies that the cross section for hadron production is dominated by one photon annihilation of the electron and p...

Thomas Burr Osborne

Professeur à l’Université de Grenoble

There are relatively few proposals for inconsistency measuresfor propositional belief bases. However inconsistency mea-sures are potentially as important as information measuresfor artificial intelligence, and more generally for computerscience. In particular, they can be useful to define variousoperators for belief revision, belief merging, and negotiation.The measu...

Professeur René HEN

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) display a delayed onset of antidepressant action of several weeks. Past work demonstrated evidence that the 5-HT4 receptor may be a direct target for treating depression and a new hope for fast acting antidepressant treatment. However, the 5-HT4 hypothesis still needs to be validated in models of anxiety/depression. We decided to investigate wheth...