Complex landscape biographies: palimpsests of Fort-Liberté, Haiti

Biographies

Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

Palimpsests New and Old

We usually think of palimpsests as old texts written on parchment over earlier erasures, but digital technology has caused the present to be the most palimpsestic of times. A survey of modern-day palimpsests leads to an examination of why and how people created palimpsests in the past. Unlike the old analog documents, our electronic palimpsested texts face the likelihood of relatively rapid to ...

Biographies

Malleable Coding: Compressed Palimpsests

A malleable coding scheme considers not only compression efficiency but also the ease of alteration, thus encouraging some form of recycling of an old compressed version in the formation of a new one. Malleability cost is the difficulty of synchronizing compressed versions, and malleable codes are of particular interest when representing information and modifying the representation are both exp...

Tuberculosis (Biographies of Disease)

The Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections, held March 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, brought the issue of antimicrobial drug resistance to the forefront. Results of a survey that polled members of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America regarding critical knowledge gaps and research priorities were presented. Respondents reported that 3 of the 5...