Cicero and Slaves from Britain

Mommsen and Cicero Cicero vindicatus 1 Index Call for papers , p . 1

A joint symposium of the ‘Euro-Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim’ and of the scholars who identify with the aims of ‘2.000. The European Journal’ will be held at Roma/Tre University on 27-28 September 2017. The themes of the symposium are: 1) Theodor Mommsen and Cicero. For Theodor Mommsen’s (1817-2017) bicentenary. 2) Genesis and Migration of Indo-European LanguagesResearch and theories on ...

Cicero Foundation Great Debate

Constructive Protocol Specification Using Cicero

New protocols are often useful, but are hard to implement well. Protocol synthesis is a solution, but synthesized protocols can be slow. Implementing protocols will be even more challenging in the future, since we expect that more advanced communication functionality will be moved from applications into protocol implementations to reduce application development effort. This trend can be seen fr...

Slaves to medicine.

In a provocative new book, 1 George Beauchamp, MD, claims that physicians are “slaves to medicine.” He explains that this is partly because “when most people go to see a doctor, both the services the doctor provides and the fees that insurance companies allow him to charge are largely predetermined by parties other than the patients and doctors.” Most patients, in turn, feel completely powerles...

Masters change, slaves remain.

Sex determination offers an opportunity to address many classic questions of developmental biology. In addition, because sex determination evolves rapidly, it offers an opportunity to investigate the evolution of genetic hierarchies. Sex determination in Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by the master regulatory gene, Sex lethal (Sxl). DmSxl controls the alternative splicing of a downstream...