The Eskimo at Paris

Cold Acclimatization in Eskimo

0 N EXPOSURE to cold the body has a complicated physiological problem to solve. There is a limit to the heat it can produce to provide for an increased heat loss and during exposure of much severity a heat deficit is incurred. While peripheral tissues are cooling, the central body temperature must be kept within a very narrow range if the function of vital organs is to be maintained. If the acc...

Vesalius at the University of Paris

NIVERSITIES are hostile to Genius," said ' Emerson. He might have cited the University SI of Paris and Vesalius as a case in point. For here was a genius who had articled with destiny to dedicate himself, his gifts, his splendid impatience to Reform; and here a University so encrusted and anklyosed with Conservatism that there was nothing quite like it in Europe at the time. What was Vesalius d...

eskimo: EXPERIMENTING WITH SKELETONS

We discuss the lack of expressivity in some skeleton-based parallel programming frameworks. The problem is further exacerbated when approaching irregular problems and dealing with dynamic data structures. Shared memory programming has been argued to have substantial ease of programming advantages for this class of problems. We present the eskimo library which represents an attempt to merge the ...

The ` ` Palace of Discovery ' ' at the Paris Exposition of 1937

Spondylolysis in the Koniag Eskimo Vertebral Column