Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed.: Jurek Becker

Heinz Nixdorf Institute Heinz Nixdorf

Medical Diseases of the War *By A. F. Hurst, London. Ed. Arnold, 1916. Price 6s.

name from Hertz) is a pbysioian and neurologist at Guy's, and has served in charge of military hospitals in England as well as in Egypt, at Lemnos, and at Salonica. The first chapter deals with functional nervous disorders, mainly produced by high-explosive shells, and he discusses, in a very interesting way, shell shock, its varied train of symptoms, its diagnosis from hysteria, and its treatm...

Background to SUMI by Jurek Kirakowski

A psychological test, wrote Anne Anastasi in her classic book on the subject (Anastasi, 1968), is essentially an objective and standardised measure of a sample of behaviour. That psychological tests should be used to evaluate a computer system by measuring the behavioural disposition of end users towards it seems to be an obvious step. Dolotta and colleagues probably coined the phrase user-perc...

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ir conditioning as we know it, providing thermal comfort by mechanical methods, first appeared in buildings about a hundred years ago. The ability to control temperature, humidity and air purity made urban development possible in the most inhospitable of locations. Together with electric lighting, air conditioning also eliminated restrictions on plan form and fenestration that architects had be...

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...