Biomechanical modelling and simulation techniques offer some hope for unravelling the complex inter-relationships of structure and function perhaps even for extinct organisms, but have their limitations owing to this complexity and the many unknown parameters for fossil taxa. Validation and sensitivity analysis are two indispensable approaches for quantifying the accuracy and reliability of suc...

Dr Davies discusses faith healing, its clients and the healing process. He suggests that typical healers often have a total faith in themselves, their working methods and their systems of belief, sometimes born out of their own previous suffering. Patients do well if they have faith (which needs to be distinguished from credulity) in their healers and this faith should be nurtured and valued. S...

Although many people welcome the recent move by the United States to give its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the content of tobacco, some worry that such regulation constitutes unwarranted interference with the freedom of competent adult tobacco consumers. The concern for protecting the autonomy of individuals is valuable indeed, but given the highly addictive natu...

I present a logic programming framework extended with explicit negation that models the participation of agents in dialogues. The semantics of the framework is given by the well founded semantics of logic programs extended with explicit negation ((AP96, ADP95, Alf93]). In this framework agents are modeled by sets of extended logic programming rules representing their mental state. An agent ment...

This paper expresses the prominent features of the fuzzy expert system by applying the algorithm Fuzzy Assessment Methodology using K ratio. To diagnosis the diabetes Fuzzy Assessment Methodology using k ratio is developed. Fuzzy Expert System consists of following elements such as Fuzzification interface, Fuzzy Assessment Methodology using K ratio and Defuzzification interface. The crisp value...

The social de®cits of schizophrenia have been interpreted in an evolutionary context of Machiavellian social dexterity, stressing de®cits in evolved psychological mechanisms that mediate the interpretation of affect and deceptive intention in others. A complementary hypothesis was tested, that patients with schizophrenia will be relatively non-Machiavellian compared to controls, and that social...

The social deficits of schizophrenia have been interpreted in an evolutionary context of Machiavellian social dexterity, stressing deficits in evolved psychological mechanisms that mediate the interpretation of affect and deceptive intention in others. A complementary hypothesis was tested, that patients with schizophrenia will be relatively non-Machiavellian compared to controls, and that soci...

As with most ailments not readily curable, empirical treatment and pseudo-specifics have been applied, to a very great extent, in the condition resulting from the bites of poisonous snakes. To enumerate all the substances which have from time to time been imposed on the credulity of mankind as remedies, would indeed be an endless task. The ancient physicians extolled preparations of the serpent...

Biomechanical modelling and simulation techniques offer some hope for unravelling the complex inter-relationships of structure and function perhaps even for extinct organisms, but have their limitations owing to this complexity and the many unknown parameters for fossil taxa. Validation and sensitivity analysis are two indispensable approaches for quantifying the accuracy and reliability of suc...

Biomechanical modelling and simulation techniques offer some hope for unravelling the complex inter-relationships of structure and function perhaps even for extinct organisms, but have their limitations owing to this complexity and the many unknown parameters for fossil taxa. Validation and sensitivity analysis are two indispensable approaches for quantifying the accuracy and reliability of suc...