Lafayette, the Thinker

Lafayette Benedict Mendel

Professor Lafayette Benedict Mendel passed away early in the morning of December 9, 1935. Through his death the world lost a distinguished scientist, the University a wise teacher and trusted servant, and his pupils a beloved counsellor and friend. The scope of his interests was broad and he achieved distinction in several spheres of scientific activity, but he will probably be best remembered ...

The Unity of Kant’s Active Thinker

Lafayette Mendel as Medical Essayist *

It was spring in New Haven in the year 1927. The elm trees were in leaf and all outdoors beckoned, as is fitting on sunny days in April throughout New England. In a classroom at 333 Cedar Street on this particular afternoon were Professor Lafayette B. Mendel and his students. The weekly seminar in physiological chemistry was in session. One of the women participants, who had just completed her ...

The thinker: opposing directionality of lighting bias within sculptural artwork

Individuals tend to perceive the direction of light to come from above and slightly from the left; it has been speculated that this phenomenon is also producing similar lighting preferences within 2-dimensional artworks (e.g., paintings, advertisements). The purpose of the present study was to address if lighting bias was present in the 3-dimensional medium of sculpture by implementing a virtua...

Purdue University , West Lafayette , IN 47907 - 2086

Most work on watermarking has resulted in techniques for different types of data: image, audio, video, text/language, software, etc. In this paper we discuss the watermarking of abstract structured aggregates of multiple types of content, such as multi-type/media documents. These semi-structures can be usually represented as graphs and are characterized by value lying both in the structure and ...