properties of copulas, their relationships to measures of dependence and several families of copulas that have appeared in the literature. An annotated bibliography provides a resource for researchers and practitioners who wish to continue their study of copulas. This article will also be useful to those who

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to function properly. We demonstrate controller composition with pre-conditions determined not only manually, but also automatically based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning theory. We evaluate our composition framework using a family of controllers capable of synthesizing basic actions such as balance

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Bonnie's early publications have stuck in my mind. They were seminal; they were laboriously created to synthesize important research for lay prevention practitioners who were trying to find successful ways of reducing and eliminating youth substance abuse. Most of these professionals were tired

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We try to publish authors ’ responses in the same edition with readers ’ comments. Time constraints might prevent this in some cases. The problem is compounded in a bimonthly journal where continu-ity of comment and redress are difficult to achieve. When the redress appears 2 months after the com-ment, 4 months will have passed since the article was published. Therefore, we would suggest to our read-ers that their correspondence about published pa-pers be submitted as soon as possible after the article appears. Haste in Starting Therapy for Depression To the Editor: The article titled “Depression Treatment in Primary Care ” by Robinson et al1 is very well written and comprehensively scores the need to reassess the type of therapy offered. Having gone through the article, we are impelled to write a few of our observations, in the hope that we might contribute to the research on treat-ment of the geriatric population. Is there a haste involved in starting the therapy for depression, especially in the geriatric population? There should be a need to reflect why less than 5 % of the patients were grouped into the “watchful waiting ” and “support group ” categories.1 Moreover, for the geriatric age group, multifaceted interventions and principles of collaborative care result in best outcomes.1,2 Were the patients given a choice or was it that the interplay of the capacity to pay and the type of insurance held that had determined the modality of treatment. We propose in-trospection by the readers on the above issues, in the backdrop of a research finding expressing the preference of geriatric patients for psychological interventions.3

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