What did the practice of law look like on high seas? This has been a matter some discussion among legal historians, with bulk evidence coming from encounters between European ships in Atlantic and Asia. article takes different tack, taking as its starting point series contracts copied into logbook early-twentieth century Arab dhow captain (nakhoda) ‘Abdulmajeed Al-Failakawi. Although these appe...

The Metropolis process is an extremely general recipe for constructing a Markov chain which has any desired stationary distribution π on a finite set Ω. Moreover, this distribution can be specified just by a weight function w : Ω → R, so that π(x) = w(x) Z where Z is an unknown normalizing factor. The Metropolis process is named after one of its inventors [MR+53]. To specify the Metropolis proc...

OBJECTIVES The objective was to quantify the effect of scribes on three measures of emergency physician (EP) productivity in an adult emergency department (ED). METHODS For this retrospective study, 243 clinical shifts (of either 10 or 12 hours) worked by 13 EPs during an 18-month period were selected for evaluation. Payroll data sheets were examined to determine whether these shifts were cov...

Research objectives: An analysis of Russian narrative sources in the 16th–17th centuries about Battle Sudbishchi; identification and explanation different assessments results battle chronicles, publications, other historical works Moscow State era. materials: Official, regional, private chronicles centuries, publications (works Ivan Terrible Andrei Kurbsky), later compilations Old tradition. Re...