Neurosis: another tough old word.

Neurosis: another tough old word.

Institutional Neurosis

Yawat: Yet Another Word Alignment Tool

Yawat 1 is a tool for the visualization and manipulation of wordand phrase-level alignments of parallel text. Unlike most other tools for manual word alignment, it relies on dynamic markup to visualize alignment relations, that is, markup is shown and hidden depending on the current mouse position. This reduces the visual complexity of the visualization and allows the annotator to focus on one ...

Catalan’s Conjecture : Another Old Diophantine Problem Solved

Catalan’s Conjecture predicts that 8 and 9 are the only consecutive perfect powers among positive integers. The conjecture, which dates back to 1844, was recently proven by the Swiss mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. A deep theorem about cyclotomic fields plays a crucial role in his proof. Like Fermat’s problem, this problem has a rich history with some surprising turns. The present article surve...

Compensation neurosis.

The concept of compensation neurosis developed in the wake of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution and subsequent enactment of workmen's compensation laws. The nosologic designation of traumatic neurosis was not consensually accepted until after World War II; the compensation label was epithetically applied as a simplistic explanation of puzzling postaccident disability. In diagnostic e...