On Gout Considered as a Tropho-Neurosis

A Treatise on Gout

worth has at length conferred upon the profession the welcome boon of issuing his long-contemplated work on gout. Amid all the high-sounding phrases and the straining after scientific precision with which modern medicine abounds, it seems suggestive of Arcadian simplicity to read a book by an author of Sir D. Duckworth's eminence, in which are upheld the importance of treatment, the validity of...

Graphic Rendering Considered as a Compilation Chain

Graphical rendering must be fast enough so as to avoid hindering the user perception/action loop. Traditionally, programmers interleave descriptions and optimizations to achieve such performances, thus compromising modularity. In this paper, we consider graphic rendering as a compilation chain: we designed a static and dynamic graphical compiler that enables a designer to clearly separate the d...

Momega Considered as a Programming Language

Institutional Neurosis

Speech considered as modulated voice

In addition to linguistically coded information, speech conveys necessarily also some paralinguistic information of expressive (affective and adaptive), organic and perspectival kind, but all respective features lack invariant absolute acoustic correlates. According to the Modulation Theory, a speaker’s voice functions as a carrier that is modulated by speech gestures. Listeners have to demodul...