A little boy enchanted by chemistry and the periodic table elements, a motorcycle young man who crossed a continental country in so many directions, scuba diver and olympic weightlifter, an obsessive re searcher and a dedicated physician. These are some facets of a brilliant human being. Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in London in July 9, 1933, graduated in Medicine at Oxford University, England, s...

We give a definition of human uncertainty through subjective likelihood estimates. The subject is asked for his estimated likelihood of a discrete variable, given a present piece of uncertain observation, under the hypothetical assumption that the variable was uniformly distributed prior to the new observation. With this interpretation of human uncertainty, we are able to perform consistent inf...

Acknowledgements Enumerating all the ways in which I am grateful to Konstantin would essentially double the length of this document, so I'll save all that stuff for my autobiography. But I will note here that he was simultaneously patient, engaged, proactive, and – best of all – ruthlessly determined to refine and sculpt all our vague big-picture ideas into digestible and implementable concrete...

s for Talks: Uncertainty Modeling: (Speaker: Raktim Bhattacharya) – There are many aspects of uncertainty in engineering systems that are broadly classified as aleatory or epistemic. Aleatory uncertainty includes uncertainty in initial conditions and parameters, which models structured uncertainty or known unknowns. Examples of epistemic uncertainty include unmodeled dynamics or incomplete know...

background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

Medicine in Stamps R amón y Cajal remarked in his autobiography: " How many interesting facts fail to be converted into fertile discoveries because their first observers regard them as natural and ordinary things, unworthy of thought and analysis! " One cannot fault Cajal for his grandiloquence; his mind was so full of ingenuity and passion for his work that he could not have expressed himself ...