<i>The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process</i> (review)

(Review) The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe

Intuition: Myth or a Decision-Making Tool?

Faced with today’s ill-structured business environment of fast-paced change and rising uncertainty, organizations have been searching for management tools that will perform satisfactorily under such ambiguous conditions. In the arena of managerial decision-making, one of the approaches being assessed is the use of intuition. Based on our definition of intuition as a non-sequential information p...

Chastity belts and birthing girdles.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Chastity belts Chastity belts have been the subject of schoolroom and music hall humour for as long as most of us can remember. But did they really exist and for the purpose suggested? My research started in 2004 with the purchase of a steel chastity belt (Figures 1 and 2). Made of solid steel with sharp spikes on the groin area, padlock plus k...

IThe theory of optimal reductions

We introduce a new class of higher order rewriting systems, called Interaction Systems (IS's). IS's come from Lafont's (Intuitionistic) Interaction Nets Lafont 1990] by dropping the linearity constraint. In particular, we borrow from Interaction Nets the syntactical bipartitions of operators into constructors and destructors and the principle of binary interaction. As a consequence, IS's are a ...

Medieval demographic thought. Essay review.

A book on demography without statistics, graphs or charts: is this possible? Peter Biller has masterfully shown not only that it is possible, but that a textual approach to demographic questions in Latin Christendom before the Black Death (especially around 1300) enormously enriches our understanding of demographic trends in a period which lacks systematic statistical data, in which statistical...