queue starting to form for the out-patient session to-morrow. The men are coughing and spitting, and making themselves as comfortable as possible against the wall, whilst the women squat with undersized infants tied on to their backs. By the morning the crowd will have grown to a great throng waiting for the hundred-odd new tickets that will be given out so that they may consult a doctor. Many ...

In this article it is shown how to improve the numerical stability of a discrete least-squares method for computing eigenvalue approximations of the Laplace operator defined on standard two-dimensional domains. Among many sets of matching points the smallest condition numbers of the corresponding matrices have been obtained by using the Morrow-Patterson and Padua points in the square case, the ...

Recent developments in the theory of choice under uncertainty and risk yield a pessimistic decision theory that replaces the classical expected utility criterion with a Choquet expectation that accentuates the likelihood of the least favorable outcomes. A parallel theory has recently emerged in the literature on risk assessment. It is shown that pessimistic portfolio optimization based on the C...

Figure 7.1 Nicknamed “buckyballs,” buckminsterfullerene molecules (C60) contain only carbon atoms. Here they are shown in a ball-and-stick model (left). These molecules have single and double carbon-carbon bonds arranged to form a geometric framework of hexagons and pentagons, similar to the pattern on a soccer ball (center). This unconventional molecular structure is named after architect R. B...

Rapid evolution of the intersexual genetic correlation for fitness in Drosophila melanogaster Julie M. Collet,1,2,∗ Sara Fuentes,1,∗ Jack Hesketh,1 Mark S. Hill,1 Paolo Innocenti,3 Edward H. Morrow,3,4 Kevin Fowler,1 and Max Reuter1,5 1Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom 2Current Address: School of Biological Sciences, Un...

The reassociation kinetics of Escherichia coli DNA were measured by S1 nuclease resistance and hydroxyapatite binding. While the reaction assayed by hydroxyapatite displays second order kinetics, the S1 nuclease measurements follow a non-second order from, as previously reported by Morrow (Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University. 1974). Much of the reaction measured with S1 nuclease occurs betw...

This opinion, however, is merely the result of ignorance; for a very slight knowledge of modern physiology will show what an important part this instrument has taken in elucidating the mechanism of the circulation, in correcting mistaken ideas, and in verifying and making accurate what was before loose conjecture. It has been wisely said that " the physiology of to-day is the pathology of to-mo...

Knowledge of the fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interfacial areas is important to better understand and quantify many flow and transport processes in porous media. This paper presents estimates for interfacial areas of porous media containing two or three fluids from measured capillary pressure (PC)-saturation (S) relations. The thermodynamic treatment of two-fluid PC-S relations presented by Morr...

MALE AND FEMALE. By Margaret Mead. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1949. 477 pp. $5.00. Margaret Mead has made an assumption, not necessarily held by all present day sexologists, that there is a fundamental difference between the human male and the human female, and has utilized four hundred and seventy-seven pages in impressive documentation of this thesis. Seven Southwest Pacific societies,...