Indices of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1821-1971
The Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society were published between 1822 and 1928. Parts appeared at irregular intervals and the volumes contain varying numbers of parts. The Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society first appeared in 1844, and the early volumes, like the Transactions, had varying numbers of parts issued at irregular intervals. From 1928 the Proceedings began to appear at regular quarterly intervals, and from Volume 24 each volume (with the exceptions of Volumes 32 and 39 to 42) has four parts issued in a single year. The dates of issue of the Transactions and of the Proceedings are given in the tables on the following pages. The early volumes of the Proceedings consist, for the most part, of accounts of meetings and brief summaries of papers read to the Society, many of which were afterwards printed in full in the Transactions. In this index the references to the Proceedings are given first with the volume number in Arabic numerals, and the reference to the Transactions follows, with the volume number in Roman numerals. When the Proceedings mentions only the title of a paper, but gives no summary, no entry has been included, unless the paper also appears in the Transactions, when only the Transactions reference is given.
An index to Volumes 1 to 12 of the Transactions was published with Volume 13. The index now published is the first cumulative index of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Its preparation and publication have been made possible by the bequest made to the Society by the late Dr F. W. Aston. The Society is most grateful to all those who have assisted in compiling this index, and in particular to its librarian, Miss J. E. Larter.
Publication of this Index has been made possible by the bequest of the late Dr F. W. Aston, (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945).
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Dementia is a topic of considerable public interest. How empirical evidence has contributed to this societal awareness and indeed fear will be covered in this talk. It will span research from the 1980s when not much was understood about dementia up to contemporary perspectives. The focus will be on the epidemiological and public health evidence base, and how this relates to the results published from clinical and lab based research. The findings from UK and other high income countries of reduced age specific prevalence (%) will be explored, and the implications of results from brain based studies that dementia is not inevitable in the presence of ‘alzheimer’ type changes. The role of inequalities, risk varying across countries and time and our knowledge about protective factors have strengthened during recent years, and the balance of high risk with whole population approaches to reducing risk for society will be considered.
The structural mechanics of shape-changing structures: from bending armadillos, self-deploying satellites, to roll-up displays.
Most structures, e.g. buildings & bridges, are designed to be near rigid when loaded: in view of high winds or heavy traffic, their movements are barely noticeable. Formally, they are stiff, strong and stable, in terms of their “structural mechanics” – the study of their loaded deformation. Large movements from material weakness, overloading, or bad design, typically portend failure & eventual collapse. Embracing large movements, i.e. deliberate changes in shape, can admit new behaviour if safe and reversible, to yield transformer-like technologies and simple explanations of biological morphology, for example. In this talk, I will describe several structural mechanics principles for making shape-changing structures, out of ordinary materials, complete with physical demonstrations.
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