I was shocked to hear of Lennart’s recent, sudden, unexpected and tragic death. I knew him to have been ill, but had thought him to have recovered and to be well again. Perhaps it is because I was by training a psychiatrist, and therefore have knowledge of and empathy with the despair and hopelessness that leads to self destruction that I am particularly touched by his death and feel that in so...

that they begin to believe that the field has indeed reached far and by the best application of their knowledge, they will help alleviate suffering. As things stand, it takes decades of medical practice to appreciate the incompleteness of the accumulated knowledge and the problems thereof, awakening the healer in him through a selfjourney, rather late in life. Aims and ob jec t ives of the phys...

Preference aggregation in a multiagent setting is a central issue in both human and computer contexts. In this paper, we study in terms of complexity the vulnerability of preference aggregation to destructive control. That is, we study the ability of an election’s chair to, through such mechanisms as voter/candidate addition/suppression/partition, ensure that a particular candidate (equivalentl...

Case report. A 14-year-old schoolboy was bitten by an Alsatian dog, sustaining a puncture wound over the dorsal surface ofthe terminal interphalangealjoint of the right little finger. Primary closure of the wound was performed without wound toilet and no antibiotics were given. One week later the wound was infected and flucloxacillin was prescribed. He continued to have considerable pain, swell...

â â â â â  bashar b. burd's atheism: reality or politics? â  â seyyed mohammad javad moosavi bafrooi * â  â abstract â many historical events demand more reflection. one of such cases is bashshar b. burd about whom there are different opinions. some people believe that he was killed because of the accusation of being atheist. however, because of the following reasons, it seems that such a ...