There has been a great deal of interest and activity in percolation theory since the two Saint-Flour courses, [76, 111], of 1984 and 1996 reprinted in this new edition. We present here a summary of progress since the first publications of our lecture notes. The second edition of Percolation, [77], was published in 1999 as a fairly complete, contemporary account of ‘classical’ percolation (but w...

On October 1, 2013 the reporting of diagnoses and procedures in the U.S. will transition from the clinical modification of the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) to the tenth revision (ICD-10). The impact of conversion to ICD-10 on Medicare MS-DRG payments to hospitals was estimated using 2009 Medicare data. A minimal hospital payment increase of 0.05 perc...

While there is no consensus about the history of time since the beginning, in this paper I will discuss some possibilities. We have a pretty clear picture of cosmic history from the electroweak phase transition through the time of recombination, a period which includes the QCD phase transition and big bang nucleosynthesis. This paper includes a quantitative discussion of the age of the universe...

Julius thomsen first published his account of myotonia (an unusual muscle stiffness disorder) in himself and his family in 1876. By november 1971, Peter Becker was already famous for his eponymous Becker muscular dystrophy when he came to the second international congress on Muscle Diseases, in Perth. there, he presented an extensive study of myotonia, recognising a recessively inherited diseas...

The field of computational complexity is reaching what could be termed middle age, with over forty years having passed since the first papers defining the discipline. With this metaphor in mind, the early nineteeneighties represented the end of adolescence for the area, the time when it stopped wondering what it would be when it grew up. During the childhood period of the sixties, research cent...

The changes in psychoanalytic self psychology since its origination by Heinz Kohut are described as differences in three branches: the traditional, the intersubjective, and the relational. Each claims both a distinctiveness and a major influence within self psychology. These are described and contrasted. It is suggested that an effort to integrate all three is premature, and that they will cont...

Article history: Received 24 December 2010 Received in revised form 12 July 2011 Accepted 26 August 2011 Available online xxxx It has been a decade since some of the early papers on dual-polarization radar based hydrometeor classification were published. Subsequently this topic has seen rapid advances especially due to adaptation of this technology for operational applications. Since the early ...