Reflections on 40 Years as a Juntendo Neurosurgeon

KEYNOTE: Reflections on 40 Years of Breeding for Disease Resistance

Reflections on My Two Years as PATH Director

When I was appointed Director of California PATH in summer 2003, it was with the specific mandate to help re-structure the research center, to align more closely with the objectives of our main sponsor, Caltrans. The re-organized PATH includes four research programs: Traffic Operations, Transit Operations, Traffic Safety and Policy. The reason for this restructuring was to provide a more direct...

Mathematical Morphology : 40 Years On

Mathematical Morphology (MM) is a general framework for studying mappings between complete lattices. In particular, mappings between binary images that are translation invariant and locally defined within a window are of special interest in MM. They are called W-operators. A key aspect of MM is the representation of W-operators in terms of dilations, erosions, intersection, union, complementati...

Quantile Regression: 40 Years On

Since Quetelet’s work in the 19th century social science has iconified “the average man,” that hypothetical man without qualities who is comfortable with his head in the oven, and his feet in a bucket of ice. Conventional statistical methods, since Quetelet, have sought to estimate the effects of policy treatments for this average man. But such effects are often quite heterogenous: medical trea...

Reflections of a retiree: 40 years in public service at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.