Something rich and strange

ALT - C 2010 “ Into something rich and strange ” – making sense of the sea - change Conference Proceedings

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: something old, something new and something borrowed...

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is a disease of the elderly: almost 70% of diagnoses are made in patients older than 65 years. This indolent lymphoproliferative disorder, manifested by a clonal expansion of mature but functionally defective lymphocytes, is one of the most common leukemias of adults in Western countries. The incidence rate is roughly 2-6 cases per 100,000 persons per year, an...

An Inner Automorphism Is Only an Inner Automorphism, but an Inner Endomorphism Can Be Something Strange

The inner automorphisms of a group G can be characterized within the category of groups without reference to group elements: they are precisely those automorphisms of G that can be extended, in a functorial manner, to all groups H given with homomorphisms G→ H. (Precise statement in §1.) The group of such extended systems of automorphisms, unlike the group of inner automorphisms of G itself, is...

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

The concept of commissioning is starting to gain traction in the Australian health system. Primary Care Networks began operations in July 2015 with a remit around commissioning health services. Despite the centrality of this concept, we know relatively little about commissioning in Australia. Other systems have experimented with it for some time, and this paper reviews the evidence and lessons ...

Something Old, Something New

Infants face the paramount task of learning a language. Here, I review recent literature on two separate topics that suggest they use a combination of both evolutionarily old and new cognitive tools to face this task. Research on the principles that guide how humans and nonhuman animals group sequences of sounds has shown that we share with other species perceptual biases that we apply to lingu...