Deterritorialized Nationality: Viktor Tsoi Saves the World

World heart day 2014: salt reduction saves lives.

The Committee emphasized the importance of continued support by WHO and other national and international partners towards the effective implementation and monitoring of these recommendations. The Committee also highlighted the need: for enhanced mobilization and coordination of resources to facilitate response efforts; to engage the global research community and address key research opportuniti...

Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)

Viktor Hamburger [5] was an embryologist who focused on neural development [6]. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans Spemann [7] to the late 1980s at Washington University [8] resolving the role of nerve growth factor [9] in the life of neurons. Hamburger is noted for his systematic approach to science and a strict attention to detail. Throughout his life he...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Software Synthesis Procedures * Viktor Kuncak

Automated synthesis of program fragments from specifications can make programs easier to write and easier to reason about. To integrate synthesis into programming languages, software synthesis algorithms should behave in a predictable way: they should succeed for a well-defined class of specifications. We propose to systematically generalize decision procedures into synthesis procedures, and us...

An Ounce of Prevention: Tobacco Control Saves Lives, Saves Money