Some unpublished papyrus documents

The Florence Nightingale-Mary Stanley controversy: some unpublished letters.

IN HER brief portrait of Mrs. Catherine Gladstone in 1956, Mrs. Georgina Battiscombe wrote that Mrs. Gladstone's efforts 'to be of some use in the [Crimean] war troubles' brought her into 'a most unfortunate collision' with Florence Nightingale when, under the influence of Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert, Mrs. Gladstone 'threw herself heart and soul ... into the good work of providing nurses for the mil...

Unpublished Manuscript

We here review the evolutionary theory relevant to the question of human cooperation and compare the results to other theoretical perspectives. Then, we will summarize some of our own work, distilling a compound explanation that we believe gives a plausible account of human cooperation and selfishness. This account leans heavily on group selection on cultural variation but also includes lower l...

Papyrus for Education (Invited Presentation)

The CEA List laboratory has recently launched an initiative to define a version of Papyrus dedicated to education and/or beginners that are interested in using a fully UML/SysML compatible open source tool, but without the complexity of a complete tool. This short article provides the latest improvements on this initiative and discuss the possible and expected contributions from the community.

Some Tools for Indexing Video Documents

This paper proposes several tools for video indexing, all of them based on a unique local algorithm. The algorithm leads to a local comparison of two successive frames of a sequence in order to detect if changes occur. This step is then followed by a morphological ltering of the temporal evolution of the criterion. Besides its characteristic of computing a given criterion locally on color image...

The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus: ancient Egyptian medicine.