Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment

Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636): royal midwife of France.

Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women's problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 years she was midwife to the royal court.

Midwifery and medicine in early modern France: Louise Bourgeois

Flanders and served that most Catholic of rulers, Charles V, is not mentioned, although Colombo is given counter-reformation Catholic beliefs because he served the Pope, and Fabricius' religious views are deduced from his friendship with Sarpi and his membership of the Venetian intellectual elite. To his credit, Cunningham is honest in his admission of the theory's weaknesses. He allows that Co...

– a database to collaboratively unravel mouse

Ultrasonic vocalisation is a broadly used proxy to evaluate social communication in mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders. The efficacy and robustness of testing these models suffer from limited knowledge of the structure and functions of these vocalisations as well as of the way to analyse the data. We created , an open database with a web interface, to mouseTube facilitate sharing and co...

Using Braids to Unravel Knots

The central goal of this paper is to discuss how braid groups and representations of these braid groups can be used to describe and implement an algorithm to search relatively efficiently for nontrivial knots with trivial Jones polynomial. The question of whether such a knot exists is still open. The point of view of the braid group taken here is topological rather than combinatorial. After sui...

The Birth of Bourgeois Punishment