Attitudes to death: some historical notes.

The Cyclic Universe: Some Historical Notes

The cyclic model of the universe has an old history in India. It has long held the preëminent position regarding the origins of the universe, and it has been described in astronomical texts, mythology, and philosophical literature. Within the current cycle, which is supposed to have begun several billion years ago, are smaller cycles of pole changes and extinctions on earth. Salient features of...

Some Historical Notes on Number Theoretic Transform

Modulo arithmetic modulo a prime integer have many interesting properties. Such properties are found in standard books on number theory. Some properties are especially of interest to the signal processing application. It was observed analogy exists between some of them and that cyclic convolution of two sequences modulo a prime integer of two sequences could be computed in integer domain as can...

Some historical notes on Behçet's disease.

conclusions in our article and refer the reader to the article for a more detailed and literature-based consideration of the issues. We have attempted to synthesize a broad range of information into coherent themes with particular attention to proposing potentially fruitful avenues of research. As investigators and clinicians who work in this area, we believe that the most constructive approach...

Some historical notes on Carl Pulfrich.

Though Carl Pulfrich (1858-1927) is best known to visual scientists for the stereophenomenon which carries his name, his loss of vision in one eye prevented him from observing the phenomenon. His demonstration apparatus did not include a pendulum as is usually stated in descriptions of the Pulfrich effect. Pulfrich himself gave full credit to others for discovering the phenomenon and for the th...

From the Sublime to the Political: Some Historical Notes