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Paracelsus and Goethe: founding fathers of environmental health.

The writings of Paracelsus and Goethe were separated by nearly three centuries and were published long before public health was a recognized profession, yet they could hardly be more relevant to environmental health problems today. In his great dramatic poemFaust, 1832, Goethe (1) confronts the promises and pitfalls of the Industrial Revolution and the economic growth that it generated. As fina...

John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton The Founding Fathers of Agile

Introduction Nothing has ever been invented — not the light bulb, not the automobile, not the iPhone. Someone at some point got the notion to combine two or more existing ideas and call it the next new thing. So it was with the Agile Alliance, the Agile Manifesto and its nine principles. In February 2001, 17 “anarchists” met to create a common and more efficient method of software development. ...

Founding Editor

From the Founding Editor

ASL is gearing up for change in looks, content as well as its name. About 27 years after it was launched, ASL is undergoing a complete transformation to meet fresh challenges of the new millennium. The journal will have a new look and feel, its advisory committee reconstituted, a more efficient peer review process and an online platform for submission and review of research papers. Very soon, a...

Founding properties on measurement

Taking for granted an ontological standpoint independent of any empirical or epistemological perspective, philosophical theories of properties are actually quite rarely adopted in the knowledge representation community. The theory of qualities introduced in the DOLCE-CORE ontology [4] allows for representing different viewpoints on the world in a unified framework but it does not refer to any p...