THIS book gives the proceedings of a conference held at the John Hopkins Hospital in May, 1965, under the chairmanship of Professor Allan C. Barnes. In his main introduction Professor Barnes asks the conference "to consider some of the points at which the science of gynecology and obstetrics impinges most closely on the needs and problems of our society". Among the problems considered were: The...

Brute facts are facts that have no explanation. If we come to know that a fact is brute, we obviously don’t get an explanation of that fact. Nevertheless, we do make some sort of epistemic gain. In this essay, I give an account of that epistemic gain, and suggest that the idea of brute facts allows us to distinguish between the notion of explanation and the notion of understanding. I also discu...

A number of recent articles attribute the origin of the use of cervical balloon dilation in the induction of labor to either Barnes in the 1860s or Embrey and Mollison in the 1960s. This review examines the historical record and reveals that, based on current practice attribution should rather be made to two contemporaries of Barnes: the Storer and Mattei. More importantly, Storer's warning abo...

By using q-Volkenborn integration and uniform differentiable on Zp, we construct p-adic q-zeta functions. These functions interpolate the qBernoulli numbers and polynomials. The value of p-adic q-zeta functions at negative integers are given explicitly. We also define new generating functions of q-Bernoulli numbers and polynomials. By using these functions, we prove analytic continuation of som...

The advantages of a near-infrared variant of the Barnes-Evans method for estimating distances to Cepheid variables are described and quantiied. A surface brightness-color relation for K photometry and the (V ?K) 0 color index is established using modern , high-precision angular diameters from optical interferometers. Applied to data for the galactic (cluster) Cepheid U Sgr, this method yields a...

streamflow recession indicates the river network balance between revenue and losses of river. recession curve expreses the storage- output relationship for the catchment. the aim of this study was trend anaylysis, modeling of streamflow recession and uncertainty estimation in shahmokhtar station on the bashar river in kohgiluyeh and boyer ahmad province. based on the results of the mann-kendall...