Arrangement and Description: Some Historical Observations

Classes Versus Prototypes: Some Philosophical and Historical Observations

In the recent years an alternative to the traditional class-based object-oriented language model has emerged. In this prototype-based paradigm [Bor86, Lie86, LTP86, Ste87, UnS87, SLU88, DMC92, Bla94] there are no classes. Rather, new kinds of objects are formed more directly by composing concrete, full-fledged objects, which are often referred to as prototypes. When compared to class-based lang...

Aboriginal Health in Australia: Some Historical Observations and Contemporary Issues

v) Government interactions with representative Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) have all but rarely been characterised by unequal power relationships which features a lack of respect for Aboriginal peoples, and our history, culture, society, intelligence, human rights and sovereignty. It has been recognised that all too often bureaucrats and their appointed advisers ...

Description of the human races: A historical perspective

Some Observations on Dirac Measure-Preserving Transformations and their Results

Dirac measure is an important measure in many related branches to mathematics. The current paper characterizes measure-preserving transformations between two Dirac measure spaces or a Dirac measure space and a probability measure space. Also, it studies isomorphic Dirac measure spaces, equivalence Dirac measure algebras, and conjugate of Dirac measure spaces. The equivalence classes of a Dirac ...

Semi-supervised Textual Analysis and Historical Research Helping Each Other: Some Thoughts and Observations

Future historians will describe the rise of the World Wide Web as the turning point of their academic profession. As a matter of fact, thanks to an unprecedented amount of digitization projects and to the preservation of borndigital sources, for the first time they have at their disposal a gigantic collection of traces of our past. However, to understand trends and obtain useful insights from t...