Continuing the Tradition

The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference: Continuing the Content-Rich Tradition in Beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia

More than 1,000 dedicated volunteers have organized what promises to be an outstanding, multidimensional program for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), and the collocated Innovative Applications of AI Conference (IAAI-07). When not ensconc ed in conference sessions, attendees can also explore Vancouver, which is nestled in the mountains, waterways and rainforests of Briti...

The Kraepelinian tradition

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was an influential figure in the history of psychiatry as a clinical science. This paper, after briefly presenting his biography, discusses the conceptual foundations of his concept of mental illness and follows this line of thought through to late 20th-century "Neo-Kraepelinianism," including recent criticism, particularly of the nosological dichotomy of endogenous p...

The Hippocratic Tradition.

The discovery of insulin has entirely changed the prognosis of diabetes in childhood. Whereas in pre-insulin days the outlook was almost hopeless, the patient seldom lived longer than two years, the prognosis now appears to be very favourable. Growth is perfectly normal as are physical andc mental activity, and there does not appear to be any increased susceptibility to infections although the ...

The Translation of Tradition :

The rapidity of environmental degradation and the recent popularity of the concept of sustainability have made clear how successful traditional societies have been in coexisting with nature. Architects, in responding to this rising awareness, are searching for models of the reinterpreta­ tion of tradition, seeking examples and guidelines. Three practitioners who anticipated the need for a reexa...

Moderation between tradition tradition and modernism the experience of Isfahan`s Jooybareh neighborhood