This paper criticises John Harris's attempts to defend an account of a 'harmed condition' that can stand independently of intuitions about what is 'normal'. I argue that because Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, determining whether a particular individual is in a harmed condition or not will sometimes require making reference to the normal capacities of their sex. Consequently, Harr...

This paper describes the authors’ hypothesis that software development organizations operate at different levels in a hierarchy of needs modeled on the Maslow Hierarchy of needs. The Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Needs has four levels representing operating states of the software development organization: Failure, Fear of Failure, Control and Value. The paper describes how the new mo...

Improving the prognosis of ovarian cancer patients is a major challenge to scientists and clinicians. At a recent multidisciplinary meeting in Washington DC, advances in identification of precursor lesions, progress in disease biomarkers and animal models, the promise of nanotechnology, and strategies for manipulation of the innate and adaptive immune response offered prospects for real progres...

We develop an algorithm for simulating \perfect" random samples from the invariant measure of a Harris recurrent Markov chain. The method uses backward coupling of embedded regeneration times, and works most eeectively for nite chains and for stochas-tically monotone chains even on continuous spaces, where paths may be sandwiched below \upper" and \lower" processes. Examples show that more naiv...

This paper uses the Harris-Todaro model of rural-urban migration to explore how inequality is likely to evolve during the course of various kinds of economic development. It is shown that development in agriculture is likely to be reduce inequality. The paper also shows that the Kuznets curve is unlikely to be a general result, and clari¿es the reasons for the observed link between dualism and ...

We present a number of new solutions to an integral equation arising in the limiting theory of Bellman–Harris processes. The argument proceeds via straightforward analysis of Mellin transforms. We also derive a criterion for the analyticity of the Laplace transform of the limiting distribution on Re(u) ≥ −c for some c > 0.

We present a new approach to the deletion method that is based on the Harris inequality. We obtain deletion lemmas that are similar in spirit to those of Rödl and Ruciński, but hold for arbitrary decreasing properties. That is, we show that under appropriate conditions, with very high (‘Janson-like’) probability it suffices to delete a small fraction of the edges of a random graph Gn,p to ensur...

Salter Harris–type injuries of the distal femur should be treated as a dislocation of the knee and therefore as a medical emergency. Senior medical staff should be involved early, ankle–brachial index ratio should be measured in all patients and the clinician should have a high index of suspicion for a vascular injury. Ideally reduction, stabilization, and vascular repair, if necessary, should ...

Consider the single-species, independent-particle, Bellman-Harris 9 branching process, defined by a progeny number distribution, and a particle 10 lifetime distribution. In this paper, we explore the existence and uniqueness of 11 the inverse problem, where one wishes to solve for the progeny number or lifetime 12 distribution given information about the total number distribution. Results 13 ar...