It has been over 100 years since the classical paper published by Gosset in 1907, under the pseudonym "Student", demonstrated that yeast cells suspended in a fluid and measured by a haemocytometer conformed to a Poisson process. Similarly parasite eggs in a faecal suspension also conform to a Poisson process. Despite this there are common misconceptions how to analyse or interpret observations ...

The title of this book is a quotation from Othello, "it is the error of the moon that makes men mad". It is a plea?partly biographical, by the former Director-General of Mental Hospitals in New Zealand?for more understanding and tolerance of the mentally ill. He wishes, he says, to help to dispel lingering prejudices and false notions as to the nature of mental disorder. Yet his advocacy of cor...

Moore and Pollack have recently given an analysis of R.ST relations in tel'mS of in tent ional versus in format ional levels of discourse [5]. Accol'ding to their (convincing) analysis, presentational RST relations correspond to the intentional level of discourse and subject matter relations to the inlbrmational level. For each text there shouhl exist two RST analyses: one containing only prese...

Across countries, the position of young adults on housing market has worsened over past decade. Young adults’ decreasing access to homeownership garnered particular attention. Most studies analysing entry focus micro-level determinants or national-level patterns and trends. This paper adds an important perspective by focusing spatial variations within a single country, unravelling pronounced in...

Central Venous Catheters (CVC) are essential to providing haemodialysis patients with chronic renal failure. Guidelines for CVC insertion and care aim reduce infection rates. In Australia, evidence suggests there is considerable variation in dialysis catheter practices. The National Reducing the burden of complications study involved implementation a bundle standardise practice. Care success in...


 Background. Although crises are generally considered uncommon, health professions education (HPE) literature gives evidence of repeated and ongoing crises. This has been most recently demonstrated by the global impact COVID-19. Crisis management proposes that such recurrent opportune moments for learning. While there much published describes changes made to format HPE amid COVID-19, litt...

We propose a general framework in which to study belief change. We begin by defining belief in terms of knowledge and plausibility: an agent believes ~o if he knows that ~p is true in all the worlds he considers most plausible. We then consider some properties defining the interaction between knowledge and plausibility, and show how these properties affect the properties of belief. In particula...

Large swaths of the nutrient-poor surface ocean are dominated numerically by cyanobacteria (Prochlorococcus), cyanobacterial viruses (cyanophage), and alphaproteobacteria (SAR11). How these groups thrive in the diverse physicochemical environments of different oceanic regions remains poorly understood. Comparative metagenomics can reveal adaptive responses linked to ecosystem-specific selective...

Every waking moment, we make decisions, from where to move our eyes to what to eat for dinner. The ease and speed with which we do this belie the complexity of the underlying neuronal processing. In the visual system, every scene is processed via a complicated network of neurons that extends from the retina through multiple areas in the visual cortex. Each decision requires rapid coordination o...