Quest for Conception

the quest for an hiv vaccine

The Quest for Uncertainty

The question of how to represent and process uncertainty is of fundamental importance to the scientific process, but also in everyday life. Currently there exist a lot of different calculi for managing uncertainty, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. Especially, almost all are defining the domain and structure of uncertainty values a priori, e.g., one real number, two real numbers...

Ongoing quest for QWERTY∗

First, we replicate the remarkable result of Hossain & Morgan (AER 2009), in which subjects in an experimental market tip almost perfectly to the superior platform even if an inferior platform enjoys initial monopoly. Next, we show that this result disappear when seemingly innocent increases in out-of-equilibrium payoffs are introduced. The inflated payoffs do not alter payoffor risk-dominance ...

Quest for Unification

Here I have explicitly displayed the pairs (ν, e−) and (u, d) as weak doublets, but I have not explicitly shown the color quantum numbers of u, d and u, d. The subscript is the hypercharge quantum number Y . This structure looks strange at first sight. Part of the strangeness, relative to the way physics was formerly understood, is that the leftand right-handed fermions transform differently un...

The quest for Hickman.

Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830), "the Rupert Brooke of anaesthesia",1 has a wellestablished place in medical history. A Shropshire general practitioner, who died young, he successfully carried out minor surgical procedures on animals rendered insensible by carbon dioxide and published his results in 1824 in a locally-printed pamphlet, which was reviewed unfavourably in the Lancet and Gentleman's...