Edvard Munch, 1863–1944

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Self-Portrait After the Spanish Flu (1919-20)

“Illness, insanity, and death...kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life,” noted innovative Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Deeply affected by the untimely death of his mother (when he was 5) and his 15-year-old sister (when he was 14), he devoted his early artistic efforts to painting their predicament and the ravages of tuberculosis, “...the wan face in profile against the pill...

Edvard Konrad

This paper explores the relationships between basic cultural characteristics of countries and some economic indexes. As cultural characteristics, the data from The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program (GLOBE) about the 9 cultural dimensions for 60 countries were used. Two facets of cultural dimensions were measured: the perceptions of actual practices and...

Edvard and May-Britt Moser

(e.g. seaweeds, barnacles). This coating adds significantly to the drag of large ships and thus increases fuel consumption. The only chemical solution known to prevent this from happening is tributyl tin, which was banned in the late 1980s on environmental grounds. Jim Callow at the University of Birmingham is among the very small number of people investigating this phenomenon and looking for n...

MUNCH - Automated Reasoner for Sets and Multisets

This system description provides an overview of the MUNCH reasoner for sets and multisets. MUNCH takes as the input a formula in a logic that supports expressions about sets, multisets, and integers. Constraints over collections and integers are connected using the cardinality operator. Our logic is a fragment of logics of popular interactive theorem provers, and MUNCH is the first fully automa...