Global Ecological Signpost, Local Reality: The Moraballi Creek Studies in Guyana and What Happened Afterwards

What happened to the large studies?

What Happened

Alcohol primarily interferes with the ability to form new long-term memories, leaving intact previously established long-term memories and the ability to keep new information active in memory for brief periods. As the amount of alcohol consumed increases, so does the magnitude of the memory impairments. Large amounts of alcohol, particularly if consumed rapidly, can produce partial (i.e., fragm...

What happened in the sixties?

In general history and popular culture, the long 1960s, a period roughly beginning in the mid-1950s and ending in the mid-1970s, has been held to be a period of change. This paper offers a model which captures something of the long 1960s as a period of ‘sea change’ resulting from the interference of three waves. Wave One was an institutional dynamic that drew out experts from closed and hidden ...

The Guatemala sexually transmitted disease studies: what happened.

In September, 2010, the public and medical communities were stunned by the disclosure of syphilis and other sexually transmitted disease studies conducted in 1946 to 1948 by the US Public Health Service in Guatemala, after being hidden for more than 60 years. The ensuing controversy and public embarrassment resulted in an acknowledgement of major ethical transgressions and an official public ap...

What Happened to the User

This paper discusses the role of the user in Content Based Image Retrieval Systems. The main goal of the paper is to discuss potential reason for why there is a seeming lack of focus on the human in a large part of current CBIR research and literature. Using computer science as a backdrop, we discuss the traditions and standards that have influenced CBIR research. Some potential explanations fo...