This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious philosophical scepticism devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars stress their intellectual kinship. More specif...

Previous investigations of the movement patterns of older adults have focused on functional movements. Performance declines have been reported with increasing age. Many investigations, however, do not require older adults to perform maximal, force producing actions. Smaller declines might be observed if older adults made a maximal effort. This investigation examined changes in a maximal skill--...

The standard of care for localized hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is surgical resection. For patients who decline or who are unfit for surgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is emerging as a viable treatment approach. We present a case of a 77-year-old female in whom an early stage HCC was incidentally discovered. Given her religious edicts as a devout Jehovah's Witness and her subseque...

(Today’s notes below are largely lifted with minor modifications from a survey by Arora, Hazan, Kale in Theory of Computing journal, Volume 8 (2012), pp. 121-164.) Today we study decision-making under total uncertainty: there is no a priori distribution on the set of possible outcomes. (This line will cause heads to explode among devout Bayesians, but it makes sense in many computer science set...

Edward Jenner is recognised today as the father of vaccination but, as this paper explores, he was not the only Gloucestershire doctor to be linked to this discovery. John Fewster, a local surgeon and apothecary, is also said to have experimented with vaccination, many years before Jenner. This claim is made in a letter addressed to John Coakley Lettsom, written by John Player, a Quaker farmer....

Quantum key distribution enables two remote parties to grow a shared key, which they can use for unconditionally secure communication over a certain distance. The maximal distance depends on the loss and the excess noise of the connecting quantum channel. Several quantum key distribution schemes based on coherent states and continuous variable measurements are resilient to high loss in the chan...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the time of rest on the change of maximal and average power as a function of time during training on an inclined plane. The values of power, developed during 7 series of 10 bounces with a 0.5 and 1 minute break, were analyzed. The research was conducted on 10 female students from the second year of master studies with a major of physical ...

and Applied Analysis 3 For all x, y, z ∈ R, we put Wα ( x, y, z ) : ( 1 − σx,y,z σz,x,y σz,y,x ) Δα ( x, y, z ) , 2.5