Recent Researches in Friction

Recent Researches in Metallurgical

Recent Researches into Snake-Poison

Snake-poison is a subject of perennial interest to all dwellers in India.For, notwithstanding the laborious researches of numerous distinguished observers, the problem of an antidote to snake-venom still remains unsolved, and poisonous snakes continue to wield their, terrible destructive power with fatal freedom. The physiological action of Indian snake-poison has been carefully studied by Fayr...

Recent German Researches on Malaria

The etiology of malaria is a study of paramount importance to the practitioner of tropical medicine. In different regions, the intensity of the poison may, to some degree, vary ; but in India, from Karachi to Sudia and Sirhind to Cape Comoriu, malaria is the cause of a greater total of sickness than perhaps all other diseases combined. Few of its inhabitants get through twelve months without au...

Recent Researches on Hookworm Infection in Indonesia

I alone am responsible for the opinions as they are expressed in this paper. The members of the Board were placed under great obligations by the kindness of planters, administrators, and doctors in Malaya, Java, and Sumatra, and I feel especially indebted to Dr. Chas. Lane Sansom, c.m.g., p.m.o., Fed. M. S.; Hon. W. Gilmore Ellis, p.c.m.o., Straits Settlements, and to Den Hogg. Ed. Gestr., Herr...

RECENT RESEARCHES in INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENT, CIRCUITS and SYSTEMS

The asymptotic (normal) distribution of an estimator approximates well the central part, but not the tails of its true distribution. Robust estimators, advertised as resistant to heavy-tailed distributions, can be themselves heavy-tailed. Though asymptotically admissible, many are not finite-sample admissible for any distribution. Hence, before taking a recourse to the asymptotics, we should fi...