My research looks for patterns and structures of organizational behavior in the domains of technology management, computer security and infrastructure vulnerability. Case study alone results in rich detail and low generalizability [1]. In my targeted domains, grounded research often produces confidential results that cannot be disseminated beyond those involved with the problem in question. I c...

As the title of this paper denotes it is mainly concerned with my thirty years' experience of kala-azar on the tea estates under my care in the Nowgong District of Assam. The first estate to suffer was attacked in 1893, and the disease slowly spread from estate to estate, the last to suffer beingattacked in 1908. The measures taken to stamp out the disease were fully described by Rogers and mys...

Members of the Society and guests. In 1951 when Mr Jackman was President of this Society, I as one of his dressers, was permitted to attend my first 'MedChi' meeting. I was overawed. The 'Med-Chi' was, after all, the premier postgraduate society of the City and far beyond. I remember how fascinated I was to observe the proceedings and to register the elegant eminence of the members. Little did ...

Ubicomp systems commonly rely on sensing and recognition capabilities to understand their context. While increasingly successful in simple environments, they face significant challenges addressing the fluid nature of less constrained, human settings. My thesis examines the construction of an interactive, mobile, sensor-based recognition system designed specifically for unconstrained settings. B...

C++ has grown into a language in which the power of its abstraction mechanisms has become the weakness for its analysis. Writing a tool capable of assuring a property beyond the scope of the standard type checking is a task comparable to writing a compiler front end. To address this, my research includes the design of abstractions that aid in analysis and verification of programs written in C++...

Most biogeographers will probably agree with Ebach et al. (2003) that an essential goal of biogeography is to ‘discover why organisms are distributed the way they are today’ (citing Platnick & Nelson, 1978). Moreover, many also agree that this is achieved by uncovering ‘the patterns of spatial distribution attained by life on earth and the means by which these distributions were achieved’ (citi...

Do the discoveries of cognitive science generalize beyond artificial lab experiments? Or do they have little hope of helping us to understand real-world events? Fretting on this question, I bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal and found that the three front page headlines each connect to my own research on explanatory reasoning. I report tests of the phenomena of inferred evidence, belief d...

Table 1: Sample Concordances of duty (split into two senses) Sense Examples (from Canadian Hansards) tax fewer cases of companies paying duty and then claiming a refund and impose a countervailing duty of 29,1 per cent on candian exports of the united states imposed a duty on canadian salttish last year obligation it is my honour and duty to present a petition duly approved working well beyond ...

Over the past two decades, many issues concerning Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities’ access to equitable, culturally sensitive services and interventions in the UK have been highlighted (Littlewood 1982; Fernando 1988, 1991; Bhui 1999, 2002; Bhugra 2001a; National Institute for Mental Health in England 2003; Department of Health 2005a,b). Frantz Fanon was one of the earliest Black psy...

To my children: May you forever feel the need to discover ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to many people who have helped me over the course of my graduate studies. First and foremost, I would like to express my deep appreciation and love to my wife, Michelle, for her tremendous encouragement and support. Without her, I certainly wouldn't be where I am today. Much of the experimental portion of...