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Machado de Assis's epilepsy.

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the most important Brazilian writer and a great universal literary figure. Little is know about his medical, personal and family history. He hid his "disease" as much as possible. Machado referred to "strange things" having happened to him in his childhood. He described seizures as "nervous phenomena", "absenses", "my illness". Laet observed a seizure ...

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[Machado de Assis and psychiatry: a chapter in the relations between art and clinical practice in Brazil].

Madness, its place in society, and the tenuous boundaries separating it from reason became a constant concern in Machado deAssis' literary production as of 1880, when a shift can be observed in his work. Clinical studies exploring the relations between art and madness have mentioned this writer countless times. The article offers an overview of Brazilian psychiatry's perception of the arts, art...

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Is there anything worthwhile to learn about the new SVM algorithm, or does it fall into the category of “yet-another-algorithm,” in which case readers should stop here and save their time for something more useful? In this short overview, I will try to argue that studying support-vector learning is very useful in two respects. First, it is quite satisfying from a theoretical point of view: SV l...

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The design of Expressive Footwear centered on creating as dense a sensing module as possible. Originally, the motivation came from creating a dance performance in which the dancer is participating directly in the creation of music in the dance performance. In order to accomplish this, a wide variety of sensors and sensing techniques are used to quantify physical parameters of the foot. Once the...