Document Summary) Homeopathy is a 200-year-old therapeutic system that uses small doses of various substances to stimulate autoregulatory and self-healing processes. Homeopathy selects substances by matching a patient's symptoms with symptoms produced by these substances in healthy individuals. Medicines are prepared by serial dilution and shaking, which proponents claim imprints information in...

Newill is sympathetic to the problems and motivations of infertile couples who seek to reproduce through artificial insemination by donor (AID). He refutes social, genetic, and moral objections to the procedure and favors protecting the anonymity of semen donors.

Many robots are limited in their operating capabilities, both computational and energy-wise. A strong desire exists to keep computation cost and energy consumption to a minimum when executing tasks like object recognition with a mobile robot. Adaptive action selection is a paradigm, offering great flexibility in trading off the cost of acquiring information against making robust and reliable in...

this paper argues that we will never get rid of the extremist mentality unless the dualist view prevails and is taught as part of the educational system. the dualist view takes account of both sides of an argument whereas the extremist view promotes one side unequivocally without considering the merits of the opposing view. the merits of the dualist view can be taught in schools so that everyon...

We explore a new form of view rewrite called view disassembly. The objective is to rewrite views in order to \remove" certain sub-views (or unfoldings) of the view. This becomes pertinent for complex views which may deened over other views and which may involve union. Such complex views arise necessarily in environments as data warehousing and mediation over heterogeneous databases. View disass...

The current problems the medical research community is presently confronting has also featured in this issue. As scientific progress continues to achieve accomplishments at a faster face, the moral and ethical questions posed by these new discoveries and technology should prominently mark future ethical discussions. The authors have chosen to speculate on where some of these conversations may l...

On reviewing the contents of this issue of Age and Ageing, I noted that four papers and one book under review included the word 'elderly' in the title, compared with two editorials, one commentary and 10 papers, which used the alternative term 'older'. In a Personal View published in the British Medical Journal (2007: 2007: 316), Marianne Falconer and Desmond O'Neill described the results of a ...

An efficient error concealment algorithm for multi-view video sequences is proposed in this work. First, we develop three concealment modes: temporal bilateral error concealment (TBEC), inter-view bilateral error concealment (IBEC), and multi-hypothesis error concealment (MHEC). TBEC and IBEC, respectively, exploit intra-view and inter-view correlations in multi-view video sequences to reconstr...

Gait has been shown to be an efficient biometric feature for human identification at a distance from a camera. However, performance of gait recognition can be affected by various problems. One of the serious problems is view change which can be caused by change of walking direction and/or change of camera viewpoint. This leads to a consequent difficulty of across-view gait recognition where pro...