full integration of AI and robotics research. Following the success of the first RoboCup in 1997 at Nagoya (Kitano 1998; Noda et al. 1998) and the second RoboCup in Paris in 1998 (Asada et al. 2000; Asada and Kitano 1999), the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup-99, were held in Stockholm from 27 July to 4 August 1999 in conjunction with the Sixteenth International Joint...

This note presents a new limit on the mass diierence of the physical B 0 s states which partially updates the result given in a previous publication, which is appended in the Addendum. In the previous publication three analyses were performed using events containing a lepton emitted at large transverse momentum, p t , relative to its jet axis`? Q hem: , ` ? ` and D s `. Among these three analys...

Introduction Urinary stones are relatively uncommon in the paediatric age group; however, the prevalence seems to be on the increase and the tendency towards urinary lithiasis in males and females is the same in childhood.1,2 The clinical features are often vague and nonspecific, so a high index of suspicion is usually required for diagnosis. Limited investigations tend to be performed in child...

One of the earliest stochastic models of the term structure was developed by Vasicek (1977). His model is based on the evolution of an unspecified short-term interest rate. Although the model is developed in a fairly general framework, it is most frequently applied in a more specific form that is presented here. The Vasicek model has many advantages, though it also has some shortcomings. The mo...

This position paper addresses the question whether existing frameworks for single user application development can generally be used on top of an OOGP as they are. The paper negates this question by using the example of synchronous document-based groupware (SDBG). Some SDBG-specific requirements for a groupware platform architecture are postulated and it is shown how these requirements conflict...

Dynamic and cellular histomorphometry of trabeculae is the most biologically relevant way of assessing steady state bone health. Traditional measurement involves manual visual feature identification by a trained and qualified professional. Inherent with this methodology is the time and cost expenditure, as well as the subjectivity that naturally arises under human visual inspection. In this wor...

A number of B meson decays may proceed only through participation of the spectator quark, whether through amplitudes proportional to fB/mB or via rescattering from other less-suppressed amplitudes. An expected hierarchy of amplitudes in the absence of rescattering will be violated by rescattering corrections. Such violations could point the way toward channels in which final-state interactions ...