This is an introduction to the basic ideas and to a few further selected topics in conformal quantum field theory and in the theory of Kac-Moody algebras. These lectures were held at the Graduate Course on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Models (Budapest, August 1996). They will appear in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics edited by Z. Horvath and L. Palla. —————— X Heisenb...

RATIONALE For children with specific healthcare needs, educational staff must be able to act in 'loco parentis', so that families can safely place their child in the school of choice. If a student has unstable epilepsy, staff must know its potential effects on the individual, and understand enough to manage this. Needs will vary from career advice to management issues such as administration of ...

Ethnomathematics is generally concerned with the resolution of practical problems and thus it is natural to investigate how this new science can be combined with cooperativism in order to foster sustained economic development. It is maintained that one way of developing this kind of investigation would include some business mathematics, informal logic and practical ethics. A project, implemente...

This paper employs non-parametric specification tests developed in Hong and Li (2005) to evaluate several one-factor reduced-form credit risk models for actual default intensities. Using estimates for actual default probabilities provided by Moody’s KMV from 1994 to 2005 for 106 U.S. firms in seven industry groups, we strongly reject popular univariate affine model specifications. As a good com...

Vinci is very pleased to host from 4th to the 6th of October 2007, the first European Traditional Medicine Congress organized by the Center of Natural Medicine. The issues that will be discussed excite growing interest not only between scientists and clinicians but also in all European citizens, and merit a wide international discussion at the highest level. I think the quality and quantity of ...

This paper compares two decision rules available to myopic players who are repeatedly randomly matched to play a 2 x 2 symmetric game. Players using the simple decision rule evaluate the strategies by comparing their current payoffs to those of an opponent currently playing the other strategy, while those following the clever decision rule assess the strategies under the assumption that opponen...

To promote molecular biology studies, public repositories for microarray data need to be constructed; the minimum contents for analysis of microarray experiment have been defined and standardized. Public repositories have been constructed by some researches which follow the standards such as MIAME-compliant data and MAGE-OM/ML. However, enough consideration has not been taken into the design of...

Em nosso manejo de neonatos prematuros que necessitam de apoio respiratório, atualmente lutamos contra prioridades concorrentes. Evitar intubação no início da vida (exceto em casos de reanimação avançada) parece ser uma proposta sensível, tanto em neonatos ≤ 29 semanas de gestação1 quanto certamente naqueles acima de 29 semanas. Por outro lado, evitar intubação significa abandonar a conduta hab...