As is rightly pointed out in the course of the introduction by Sir Humphry Rolleston, President of the Eugenics Society, the science of eugenics has been brought into prominence by the alteration in the birth-rate due to the progressive adoption of birth-control which, with the stress of economic conditions, has materially disturbed the balance between the wellendowed stocks and the defective i...

was always available for use when required. Of course the value of a note-book lies in its compilation by the user of it himself, but we take it that by this book the author hopes to aid those whom he cannot personally reach. In the preface it is stated that the work is in no way meant to replace larger text-books or practical work in the laboratory, but to supplement these by helping the stude...

This paper is dedicated to a very difficult and important subject – inclusion. Removing barriers, spreading social awareness and firmly established assistantship-guidance: these are the pillars by which inclusion is no longer an idea, but it becomes a process of creating a modern model of human functioning in the world. This pattern is primarily based on a respect for, and an understanding of h...

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computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator formally to specify all of the knowledge needed by the computer. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these h...

John Wiley & Sons has announced the availability of the Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Second Edition. The senior editor is John G. Webster and one of the associate editors is Edward S. (Ned) Sternick; a medical physicist with numerous years of experience in the field. The unusual approach of announcing the availability of the six volume reference rather than reviewing it ...

Anyone searching for solid management principles behind the smokescreen of dynamic approaches to strategic management is up against a preliminary difficulty: a large part of the available material ranges from those requiring a familiarity with mathematics, not necessarily available to the average reader, to those conveying ideas that border on common sense. In Kim’s book, behind the clarity of ...