Probabilistic Modelling in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics has been written for researchers and students in statistics, machine learning, and the biological sciences. The first part of this book provides a self-contained introduction to the methodology of Bayesian networks. The following parts demonstrate how these methods are applied in bioinformatics and medical informatics. All three fields - the methodology of probabilistic modeling, bioinformatics, and medical informatics - are evolving very quickly. The text should therefore be seen as an introduction, offering...

In British provincial newspapers in the 1860s and 1870s brief reports began to appear informing readers that a number of writers, ministers and schoolmasters had been awarded LL.D degrees from Tusculum College in the United States. Correspondents to the newspapers began to query these degrees, claiming that they could not find Tusculum on the map. In fact Tusculum College did exist, and after the devastation of the Civil War, began to raise funds by selling degrees overseas to men deemed worthy of them. This pamphlet tells the story of this extraordinary saga. The autodidact, poet and radical...

Awareness: Conversations on Grace, Awakening, and Breaking Free from Religion is about finding that profound place of contentment. As a grace filled awareness rises in your heart you can be guaranteed one thing: you will never look at life the same way you always have. The writhes and twists that self-inflicted religion can impose on our inner life are both addictive and disturbing - sapping our spirits like a corrosive vapor oozing out of our limited perceptions. We hear a lot about awareness, enlightenment, or awakening - what do we really understand by those terms and how does that...

'Now, Mr Editor I should very much like to know who is to blame ...' Birmingham Journal, 24 February 1838. This book was inspired by one letter to a newspaper. In January 1842 a correspondent to one of the Birmingham newspapers expressed his view that police constables, when they had nothing else to do, should be instructed to clear the foot paths of snow. From this unintentionally amusing letter grew this project, which collects together over sixty letters published in Aris's Birmingham Gazette and the Birmingham Journal from 1820 to 1850. Correspondents wrote in to their newspapers to...