martin powell makes the point that the death of the national health service (nhs) is constantly asserted without criteria. this article suggests that the nhs is many things, which makes criteria unstable. the alignment of interests in the structure of the nhs enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...

During his visit to the American University of Beirut, I was indeed lucky when Professor Holmdahl MH invited me to his Department of Anaesthesiology, University Uppsala, Sweden. I was also, doubly honored and surprised when the internationally famous Professor asked me not to call him Professor Holmdahl, “call me Martin and I call you Anis”. His invitation to me to spend the first week of my vi...

F -COMMERCE IS AFFECTING the terms of competition in many indusi tries because it makes it possible to rearrange and restructure segments of the value chain. This chapter explores the impact of e-commerce on the personal computer (PC) industry. The PC is particularly appropriate for study for a number of reasons—most important because it is the device linking most persons to the Internet and be...

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We develop an idempotent version of probabilistic potential theory. The goal is to describe the set of max-plus harmonic functions, which give the stationary solutions of deterministic optimal control problems with additive reward. The analogue of the Martin compactification is seen to be a generalisation of the compactification of metric spaces using (generalised) Busemann functions. We define...

Martin Powell makes the point that the death of the National Health Service (NHS) is constantly asserted without criteria. This article suggests that the NHS is many things, which makes criteria unstable. The alignment of interests in the structure of the NHS enables both overheated rhetoric and political strength, and that pluralization of provision might actually undermine that alignment over...

1 INRIA Grenoble, 655 avenue de l’Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin, France 2 Université de Grenoble , LIG, 51 avenue Jean Kuntzmann, 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin, France 3 4D View Solutions, 655 avenue de l’Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin, France 4 INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, LIFL, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France 5 Université Bordeaux, LaBRI, INRIA ...

Martin-Löf randomness was originally defined and studied in the context of the Cantor space 2ω . In [1] probability theoretic random closed sets (RACS) are used as the foundation for the study of Martin-Löf randomness in spaces of closed sets. Here we focus on the space of closed subsets of R and a particular family of measures on this space, the generalized Poisson processes. This gives a nove...

R Omarjee1, C M Prat1, O Flusin1, S Boucau2, B Tenebray1, O Merle1, P Huc-Anais3, S Cassadou4, I Leparc-Goffart (isabelle. [email protected])1 1. IRBA, French National Reference Center for Arboviruses, Marseille, France 2. Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales (ARS), Délégation territoriale de Saint Martin et Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, France 3. Laboratory Saint-Martin Biologie Philippe Ch...

I am deeply honored to receive the ACL’s Lifetime Achievement Award. I’m especially honored when I look back at the list of previous winners—Chuck Fillmore, Eugene Charniak, Eva Hajičová, Fred Jelinek, Martin Kay, Aravind Joshi, and the others— they’re all my heroes. I was of course delighted to learn of this award. The most we can hope for in life is to take part in the conversation, and an aw...