Milan Kundera’s Slowness – Making It Slow

Liver transplantation and expanded Milan criteria: does it really work?

CONTEXT Orthotopic liver transplantation is an excellent treatment approach for hepatocellular carcinoma in well-selected candidates. Nowadays some institutions tend to Expand the Milan Criteria including tumor with more than 5 cm and also associate with multiple tumors none larger than 3 cm in order to benefit more patients with the orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS The data collecte...

The slowness principle: SFA can detect different slow components in non-stationary time series

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a bioinspired method for extracting slowly varying driving forces from quickly varying non-stationary time series. We show here that it is possible for SFA to detect a component which is even slower than the driving force itself (e.g., the envelope of a modulated sine wave). It depends on circumstances like the embedding dimension, the time series predictability, ...

Slowness Surface Wave Surface

Slowness in schizophrenia.

Nufferno Speed Test In this investigation we have used only the Nufferno speed test, which is designed to measure speed as distinct from general level of intelligence. It consists of 19 problems of the Thurstone letterseries type in each of which the patient is presented with series of letters and is required to add at the end of the series the letter which is appropriate to the sequence (Furne...

www.ssoar.info Slowness logistics

Works conducted in logistics management mostly emphasize the importance of a ‘time compression’ strategy to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. At the level of the design, manufacturing or distribution of products to consumers, high-speed orientation is now considered to be a universal source of performance. Drawing from current developments in the French food retailing industry, the p...