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Thirty years after the untimely death of Imre Lakatos, the enduring influence of several Lakatosian issues and ideas asks for a systematic appraisal of his work. A significant step in this direction has been made in two workshops, organized by the Institute Vienna Circle and the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science of Eötvös University, which were held in Vienna and Budapest in Autum...

1InfoSci Inc., Menlo Park CA 94026–7117, U.S.A. 2Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487–0226, U.S.A. 3School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, NSW 2747, Australia 4Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, U.K. 5Institute of System Science, National Univers...

Avril Drummond1† & Lynn Legg2 †Author for correspondence 1Division of Rehabilitation and Ageing, B Floor, Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Tel.: +44 115 823 0226 Fax: +44 115 823 0231 Avril.Drummond@ nottingham.ac.uk 2Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Level 3, Centre Block, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK Tel.: +44 141 211 4953 Fax: +44 141 211 4944 E-mail: step@...

This paper presents the CFH12K-VIRMOS survey: a deep B, V, R and I imaging survey in four fields totalling more than 17 deg, conducted with the 30× 40 arcmin field CFH-12K camera. The survey is intended to be a multi-purpose survey used for a variety of science goals, including surveys of very high redshift galaxies and weak lensing studies. Four high galactic latitude fields, each 2 × 2 deg, h...