Shared Histories, Personalities, Traditions. European Examples

Generalized Shared Control versus Classical Shared Control: Illustrative Examples

Figure 1: The autonomy (black solid lines) can take 2 possible routes through the obstacle field (thus displaying multimodality), both of which have nearly the same safety and efficiency. The operator model (red dashed lines) indicates two potential paths forward (such multimodality might arise as a result of unreliable communications, a multitasking operator, or a startled operator). Linear bl...

Implementing European Policies: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions

The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration

political unrest. Lunacy can hardly be said to have been perceived as a pressing problem: required by the 1806 Select Committee of the House of Commons to report lunatics in the county, the Bedfordshire magistrates made a "nil" return! Bernard Cashman's excellent history of the asylum (which was closed in 1860 to make way for a bigger one) offers a wholly convincing solution to this conundrum: ...

The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions

G. R. DUNSTAN (ed.), The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions, University of Exeter Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 235 £25.00. This volume contains the proceedings of a conference organized by Professor G. R. Dunstan at the University of Exeter in March 1988 to commemorate the eight-hundredth anniversary of the death of Constantine the African, which is presumed to have tak...

Three Examples of Surface Fire Histories Along Elevational Transects

The pine-dominated woodlands and forests of the Sky Islands typically sustained surface burns about once per decade until the turn of the 19th to the 20th centuries, when livestock grazing and organized fire suppression effectively ended this centuries-long pattern. Fire scar chronologies from 31 sites in 10 mountain ranges illustrate this history. By combining elevational transects of fire sca...