Implicit ruminations

Ruminations on Ecclesiasticus.

I was not raised in the Catholic church, but I have been learning many remarkable and wonderful things from that tradition. The stress of third-year pharmacy school and the pressures of having to answer life’s big questions about the future have been weighing on me heavily, and I have found solace and a means of maintaining perspective in a daily prayer book based on the Rule of St. Benedict. A...

Ruminations About Renal Denervation.

Family Law Economics Part I: Ruminations

The UF College of Law has a course entitled Economics of the Family. Developed as part of the Family Law Certificate Program, the class covers the quantitative aspects of Family Law: alimony, child support, distribution of property, marriage contracts, social security, child care and elder care costs, adoption expenses, education expenses, heart balm actions, the tax consequences of each topic,...

Ruminations on Multi-Tenant Databases

This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-tenancy to handle high traffic volumes at low cost. It then outlines the main requirements on multi-tenant databases: scale up by consolidating multiple tenants onto the same server and scale out by providing an administra...

ACES: Ruminations on Language Emu- lation Software

Receiving empathy and understanding is a constant need for those living with aphasia, an acquired language disorder that impairs expressive and receptive language (both spoken and written). With the introduction of ACES, a system that realistically emulates the effects of aphasia, we demonstrate how people can increase their empathy towards individuals aphasia, by experiencing the disorder firs...