Discerning Early Minoan cultic trends: the archeological evidence

Agent-Based Modeling of the Early Minoan Social Organization Structure

In this work, we develop a generic agent-based model (ABM) for simulating ancient societies. Agents in our model are completely autonomous, in contrast to most existing ABMs used in archaeology. We employ this model to evaluate the impact of different social organization paradigms and agricultural strategies on population viability and evolving spatial distribution of settlement locations, at a...

Minoan weights

Evidence of visual hemineglect in an archeological specimen?

Fetal PCA, when present, originates from the internal carotid artery (ICA) and it is supplied by the carotid system rather than the vertebro-basillary system. Fetal type posterior (FTP) circulation variation has been reported in 3-36% in the literature. Three types have been described: Transitional configuration, partial FTP and full FTP. In FTP, leptomeningeal collaterals cannot provide the PC...

Discerning Fermions

We demonstrate that the quantum-mechanical description of composite physical systems of an arbitrary number of similar fermions in all their admissible states, mixed or pure, for all finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces, is not in conflict with Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII). We discern the fermions by means of physically meaningful, permutation-invariant categorical r...

Creating discerning users

As technology progresses, we are still surrounded by complex and difficult-to-use systems. Usability engineering appears to have had little impact on practice. Why is this, and what can be done to contribute to improving system design? This paper surveys the pervasive culture of unusability, and proposes that HCI should promote public understanding of science. A particular proposal is also put ...