Samuel James McIntosh Allen

Dr. Samuel James Meltzer: physiologist of the Rockefeller Institute.

James Vaupel: an innovator in the demography of ageing. Interview by Samuel Loewenberg.

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 October 3, 2009 1139 James W Vaupel’s career has always been about transcending the limits of his fi eld, demography. As the founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, Vaupel has helped to revolutionise the statistically bound fi eld by taking a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates both human and non-human biolog...

Dr. Samuel Johnson: His Medical History as Recorded by James Boswell.

Mcintosh and Bruce

We consider a discrete-time probabilistic inference system where the conclusions and inputs are probability measures on measurable spaces X,X and Y,Y respectively. We are given a kernel N from X to Y (N : X × Y → [0, 1]), which represents the way information about states of affairs (represented by X) is transmitted to a receptor (represented by Y ). Suppose that at time t = i the conclusion is ...

Samuel Dales

Subsequent to the demons t ra t ion tha t the major h i s tocompa t ib i l i t y molecu la r complex (MHC) 1 is a necessary de t e rminan t in i m m u n e specific ki l l ing by cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL) in virus-infected target cells (1), e luc ida t ion of the p h e n o m e n o n of M H C restr ict ion has been sought th rough several different exper imen ta l approaches. O n the basis of d...