Captain and Quartermaster, R.A.M.C.(T.) ; Steward, Southmead Hospital. Thomas Jones began his career with the Guardians of the Parish of Lambeth in 1896, and was subsequently Master of Alresford Workhouse, Hants., from 1903 to 1905. Then, coming to Bristol, he was successively Storekeeper and Master's Clerk at Eastville Institution until he was promoted to be Steward at Southmead Infirmary in S...

• A network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) was conducted comparing 12 different prostaglandins used for labour induction. Different methods were compared with each other and with no treatment or placebo. • Data were extracted for five key outcomes in terms of effectiveness and safety: serious neonatal morbidity or perinatal death, serious maternal morbidity or death,...

Landauer principle provides a link between Shannon information entropy and Clausius thermodynamical entropy. We set up here a basic formula for the incremental free energy of a quantum channel, possibly relative to infinite systems, naturally arising by an Operator Algebraic point of view. By the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory, we can indeed describe a canonical evolution associated with a quan...

Motivated by recent developments in light of the sub-prime and subsequent financial crisis we fit two different vector autoregressive generalized conditional heteroscedastic (VAR-GARCH) models to three financial indices with the aim of understanding the development of dependency structures between credit spreads and other macroeconomic variables. Our analysis includes daily quotes from June 200...

For a conditional expectation E on a (unital) C*-algebra A there exists a real number K ≥ 1 such that the mapping K · E − idA is positive if and only if there exists a real number L ≥ 1 such that the mapping L ·E − idA is completely positive, among other equivalent conditions. The estimate (min K) ≤ (min L) ≤ (min K)[min K] is valid, where [·] denotes the entire part of a real number. As a cons...

For a conditional expectation E on a (unital) C*-algebra A there exists a real number K ≥ 1 such that the mapping K · E − idA is positive if and only if there exists a real number L ≥ 1 such that the mapping L ·E − idA is completely positive, among other equivalent conditions. The estimate (min K) ≤ (min L) ≤ (min K)[min K] is valid, where [·] denotes the entire part of a real number. As a cons...