“How Could You Forget That?”: Representing Collective and Traumatic Memories in Winter Soldier

Performance Measures for Associative Memories that Learn and Forget

Recently, many modifications to the McCulloch/Pitts model have been proposed where both learning and forgetting occur. Given that the network never saturates (ceases to function effectively due to an overload of information), the learning updates can continue indefinitely. For these networks, we need to introduce performance measmes in addition to the information capacity to evaluate the differ...

Could you imagine that much of images?

An individual’s life or his/her entire medical history, from conception to death, may be documented as ultrasound images, radiographies, tomographies, photos, movies of surgical procedures, and measurable data converted into graphics illustrating descriptive and comparative statistics. Could anyone have predicted this 20 years ago? This is possible and not only limited to ophthalmology. Most, i...

"You never told me that could happen!" Consent and litigation: how to avoid it.

It certainly can seem that whenever something goes wrong, patients want to sue the individual concerned. If they cannot show that the doctor was negligent in the procedure that was performed, they often claim that “you never told me that could happen”. To help avoid litigation in this area, three factors should be considered: (1) What you tell the patient; (2) How you tell them; and (3) What yo...

How You Could Use NEPTUNE in the Modelling Process

The European Community plays an active role in giving concrete expression to the new developments taking place in modelling languages and in UML (Unified Modelling Language) [1] in particular. These developments often make use of norms and specifications that are mainly carried out by the OMG (Object Management Group). The main objective of the European NEPTUNE project led by CS (Nice Environme...

How you feel on the inside could be affecting how you look on the outside.