Scientists are taking technology in common laboratory usage for more than 15 years and adapting it in ways that may, quite literally, bring the laboratory into the field. The technology is known as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and a team of scientists has taken a sensing unit that was once the size of an old-fashioned console television and shrunken it down into a handheld unit no bigger th...

I’d like to thank the authors for writing this paper. As a designer of such analyzers, I find it a pleasure to see such an excellent independent performance evaluation. I have no additional technical comments to offer beyond what has already been suggested by the other reviewers. I do want to offer one comment related to a statement from anonymous referee #2: "...presents a comprehensive compar...

Pretty printers are tools for formatting structured text. A recently taken algebraic approach has lead to a systematic design of pretty printers. Wadler has proposed such an algebraic pretty printer together with an implementation for the lazy functional language Haskell. The original design causes exponential complexity when literally used in a strict language. This note recalls some propertie...

For instance, early molecular models were literally "built" with metal wires to represent bonds, or with plastic spheres for atoms. The age of the computer has brought perhaps less time consuming methods of building such models, as well as expanding our list of representions. These now include such constructs as backbone "worms" and molecular surfaces which, in addition to an increase in physic...

The discussion of cardinalities in Chapter 2 suggests that the most interesting thing about them is their order relation, namely that any set of cardinalities forms a well-ordered set. So in this section we shall embark upon a systematic study of well-ordered sets. Remarkably, we will see that the problem of classifying sets up to bijection is literally contained in the problem of classifying w...

The future for long-term care? Alan Milburn's speech went down well withnurses at RCN Congress in Bournemouth. Butit wasn't his words which received the standingovation that morning. It was a question from a Scottish member about the funding of longterm care which got nurses to their feet. This was a powerful moment, congress at its best. Nurses making a stand literally - for some of the most v...

(1) The structure of the paper is somewhat odd. The introduction is quite long, and the general part is literally loaded with references (there are, e.g. not less than ten references backing the argument that reanalyses are susceptible to deficiencies of the observations (page 9484)). The reference section is therefore almost as long as the paper itself. Compared to the introduction the results...

I want to express my deep gratitude to Ellen Pence, Madeline Dupre, Jim Soderberg and the others from the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project for giving me this opportunity to speak with you. The State of Minnesota should be proud that, quite literally, the world looks to this program for guidance on understanding and ending domestic violence. I also want to acknowledge how much I contin...

This constitutes a compressed summary of the book. I believe we may fi nd the goal of this collection condensed in the two following sentences. The fi rst one has been taken (not literally) by R. Moguillansky from Paz’s essay (p. 291): ‘The study in depth of the specifi c fi eld is the best contribution psychoanalysis may offer, both in terms of knowledge production and of ethical modelization’...

It is widely believed, at least among central bankers, that “independence” is a prerequisite for achieving the goals that traditionally have been assigned to central banks specifically for achieving price stability. “Independence” does not mean literally independence from government, because central banks here and abroad are almost always part of government. The relationship of central banks to...