Faldo's folly or Monty's Carlo

Untrammeled growth as an environmental “ March of Folly ”

The themewe explore in this paper is that uncontrolled growth and resulting environmental damage can be considered as an Environmental March of Folly. A folly has been defined as the pursuit of policies that are contrary to the pursuers own long-term interests. For an event or series of events to be considered a folly, three criteria must bemet. The policy must be perceived as counter-productiv...

مقایسه میزان موفقیت فراکشنال اینداکشن همراه با تزریق اکستراآمنیوتیک نرمال‌سالین و کشش روی گردن رحم توسط سوند فولی برای ختم حاملگی‌های 3 ماهه دوم

The objective of the present study was to compare the success rate of extra-amniotic saline with traction on the cervix with folly catheter for termination of second trimester pregnancies. A randomized trial of extra-amniotic saline infusion versus traction on the cervix with folly catheter was performed on 200 patients with gestational age of 14-28 weeks who required induction of lab...

A march of folly.

Folly, as defined by Barbara Tuchman, is “the pursuit of policy contrary to the self-interest of the constituency or state involved . . . folly is a policy that is counter-productive.” Current trends in cancer incidence and mortality rates, education, research, and societal mores and views combine to present a number of antithetical propositions. A review of these propositions highlights the ne...

An Investigation of Actions, Change and Space

This work investigates the spatial knowledge and automated solution of a domain composed of non-trivial objects such as strings and holed objects. Formalising the Fisherman’s Folly Puzzle The work presented in (Cabalar and Santos 2011; Santos and Cabalar 2008) has concentrated on the formalisation and automated solution of the Fisherman’s Folly puzzle (shown in Figure 3), whose goal is to relea...

Wisdom, Madness and Folly