How Do We Tell the Story of Medieval Copts? Inspirations from Burton Mack

How do we tell time?

Animals time events on scales that range more than 10 orders of magnitude-from microseconds to days. This review focuses on timing that occurs in the range of tens to hundreds of milliseconds. It is within this range that virtually all the temporal cues for speech discrimination, and haptic and visual processing, occur. Additionally, on the motor side, it is on this scale that timing of fine mo...

How Safe is Our Product – Beef ? Do We Have a Story to Tell?

To E or not to E--how do we tell?

Clinical disease resulting from atherosclerosis continues to cause extensive mortality and morbidity and uses an exorbitant amount of the financial resources available for health care. Atherosclerosis is a complex, multifactorial, and chronic disease influenced by a wide variety of genetic, environmental, and behavioral activities. However, it is at last widely recognized that among the known r...

How do myocytes tell right from left?

Two cardiomyopathies ascribed to desmosomal mutations have been described: Naxos disease which gives rise to arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C),1 and Carvajal syndrome,2 in which the cardiac pathology is primarily left-sided. How do mutations in a single junctional type lead to such disparate results? In this edition of Circulation Research, Yang et al3 describe ...

How to Tell a Logical Story

At the center of most plots in literature is a main character, who is stuck in a conflict and considers different arguments and options to resolve the conflict. In this paper, we show how to formalise such an argumentation process and we develop a formal argumentation framework, which caters for a declarative semantics of an argumentation process and an operational, efficient, goal-driven, top-...