Profile of Michael Lynch

Profile of Michael B. A. Oldstone. Interview by Nicholette Zeliadt.

Viruses lie at the heart of some of humanity’s most pernicious and devastating diseases, such as AIDS, hepatitis, and influenza. Michael Oldstone, a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a professor of immunology and microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, has devoted his career to a molecular understanding of how viruses infect cells, e...

Profile. The constant psychiatrist: an interview with Michael Kopelman

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meant by "more effective." This unqualified assertion is likely to confuse the many people who already use or recommend All-Bran as an "effective" means of avoiding constipation whatever its soluble:insoluble fibre ratio or influence on plasma lipids, mineral absorption, faecal bulking, bowel transit time, etc. Furthermore, it is difficult to see why "wholemeal bread and crispbreads" are the on...

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A Functional Limit Theorem for the Profile of Search Trees by Michael Drmota,1 Svante Janson

We study the profile Xn,k of random search trees including binary search trees and m-ary search trees. Our main result is a functional limit theorem of the normalized profile Xn,k/EXn,k for k = α logn in a certain range of α. A central feature of the proof is the use of the contraction method to prove convergence in distribution of certain random analytic functions in a complex domain. This is ...