OBJECTIVE To describe the documentation of care for the usual range of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) problems seen in primary care as a basis for developing a computerised information system to aid quality assessment. DESIGN Descriptive study of the pattern of ENT problems and diagnoses and treatment as recorded in individual case notes. SETTING The primary health care centre in Mjölby, Swede...

These notes are the written version of two lectures delivered at the VIII Mexican School on Particles and Fields on November 1998. The level of the notes is basic assuming only some knowledge on Statistical Mechanics, General Relativity and Yang-Mills theory. After a brief introduction to the classical and semiclassical aspects of black holes, we review some relevant results on 2+1 quantum grav...

Achieving guideline-based targets in patients with diabetes is crucial for improving clinical outcomes and preventing long-term complications. Using electronic heath records (EHRs) to identify high-risk patients for further intervention by screening large populations is limited because many EHRs store clinical information as dictated and transcribed free text notes that are not amenable to stat...

Engineering is the art of applying available technologies to arbitrary specifications in attempt to implement them as products. Implementation may be viewed as mapping concepts from a specification domain onto a technology domain. For example, a specification of a banking system is written in a language whose vocabulary contains clients, statements, transactions, branches etc. and is expected t...

These lectures notes were written for a summer school on Mathematics for post-quantum cryptography in Thiès, Senegal. They try to provide a guide for Masters’ students to get through the vast literature on elliptic curves, without getting lost on their way to learning isogeny based cryptography. They are by no means a reference text on the theory of elliptic curves, nor on cryptography; student...

These notes are based on two talks given at the Arithmetic & Algebraic Geometry Seminar of the Korteweg-de Vriesinstituut for mathematics of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. They are intended to give a short introduction to the theory of Kähler manifolds, with a slight focus of applicability to the subject of K3 surfaces. However, they also include other interesting results not related to K3 sur...

Small print The syllabus for the course is defined by the Faculty Board Schedules (which are minimal for lecturing and maximal for examining). What is presented here contains some results which it would not, in my opinion, be fair to set as book-work although they could well appear as problems. In addition, I have included a small amount of material which appears in other 1B courses. I should v...

These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments over and over again. So began the abstract of our earlier paper Notes on Postmodern Programming. We now revisit the issue of postmodern programming, and attempt to address some of the questions raised by our exposition. To illustrate the nature of...

These notes accompany a lecture given in the summer of 2006 at the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University. They are provided as a reference (and especially bibliography) for students new to the probabilistic method. The goal in these notes is twofold. First we wish to demonstrate the basics of the probabilistic method, covering both the expectation and second moment applications. Second,...

As M. Rubinstein [Ru] has already considered all primitive quadratic characters with prime conductor q ∈ [N, 2N ], we do not include our notes of this case. For these families we show the 1-Level Densities agree with the Unitary Group for even Schwartz functions φ̂ with supp(φ̂) ⊂ (−2, 2). We conclude with an appendix on “reasonable” assumptions which would allow us to extend the support of the t...