Recensie van: Docendo discimus. Liber amicorum Romain Van Eenoo, 2 dln. / Jan Art en Luc Luc François (1999)

Jan van Mill

De Groot proved that every group is the autohomeomorphism group of some metrizable space. A space is totally disconnected if every connected subset of it contains at most one point. We prove that every separable metrizable totally disconnected topological group is topologically isomorphic to the autohomeomorphism group of some separable metrizable space, when given the compact-open topology. It...

Jan A . van Gils Matthijs van der Geest Jutta Leyrer

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Art.-Van Opstal (B)

417 Human auditory localization is remarkably accurate, even in complete darkness under open-loop conditions1–4 (Fig. 2; see also Methods). This performance may rival that of the barn owl, a well studied nocturnal hunter that relies heavily on its auditory system to capture prey. Yet, quite different localization mechanisms are used by each species. In barn owls, sound azimuth (horizontal direc...

Obituary for Jan Valentyn van der Merwe

Professor Jan Valentyn Van der Merwe passed away on Friday, 25 September, at the age of 71. Prof Jan’s illustrious career began after he completed a research fellowship at Duke University in the USA, and returned to South Africa as Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Pretoria University. In this role, Prof Jan pioneered the establishment of an assisted reproduction unit in S...