Readers Digest contains more than abridged stories. The “My Most Unforgettable Character” feature articles highlight people who affected others in a most positive manner. Computer graphics has a wonderful cast of unforgettable characters who founded the eld in the 1960s and 1970s. John Staudhammer, who died in February 2017, is one of those unforgettable characters. He profoundly in uenced comp...

In the essential area of Network Management we have dealt with the subject of the scheduler reaction and adjustment in a dynamic resource environment. Different scheduling models from various areas of Computer Networks (wired and wireless) are presented. Better performance for all the cases via simulation is provided. Many methods of packets? service have been developed, associated with the bor...

During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...

The book begins with John Henry Biggart’s memories from his personal papers, meticulously dissected by his son, Denis (himself a Consultant Pathologist and academic in Queen’s University). For those interested in social history there are titbits of the times in which he lived from his birth in Belfast in 1905, to his school days, University days (with the remarkable pranks of yesteryear) to the...

School. Joining the Bristol Medical School in 1891, he qualified, in 1896, and following this held several resident appointments at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He went into partnership with the late Dr. Irwin at Almondsbury, and, succeeding him, remained there in active practice until his death. MacWatters was of the best type of general practitioner, enthusiastic and thorough in his work, suc...

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Introduction. Social intelligence: from brain to culture 485 N. J. Emery, N. S. Clayton & C. D. Frith Cognitive adaptations of social bonding in birds 489 N. J. Emery, A. M. Seed, A. M. P. von Bayern & N. S. Clayton Social cognition by food-caching corvids. The western scrub-jay as a natural psychologist 507 N. S. Clayton, J. M. Dally & N. J. Emery Social intelligence in the spotted hyena (Croc...

Enhanced pitch perception and memory have been cited as evidence of a local processing bias in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This bias is argued to account for enhanced perceptual functioning ( Mottron & Burack, 2001 ; Mottron, Dawson, Soulières, Hubert, & Burack, 2006 ) and central coherence theories of ASD ( Frith, 1989 ; Happé & Frith, 2006 ). A local processing bias confers a different c...