The Florence Herbarium

The Florence Declaration

Over 1,650 participants from 94 countries came together in Florence from 9-14 November 2014 for the 18 General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 1300 technical proposals and the exchange between heritage specialists have culminated in the following Declaration of principles and recommendations on the value of cultural heritage and landscapes for promoting pe...

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

Herbarium turns a new leaf

Steven Dakin and colleagues present a detailed analysis of the stimuli used in our study [1] revealing that our method of interpolation is associated with certain changes in the statistical properties of interpolated images. They argue that these changes might represent a possible source of the BOLD signal non-monotonicity that we observed in the primary visual cortex (V1). This finding is inte...

Herbarium Racketensis: A Stroll through the Woods

Domain-specific languages are the ultimate abstraction, dixit Paul Hudak. But what abstraction should we use to build such ultimate abstractions? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: a language, of course! Racket is the ultimate abstraction-abstraction, a platform for quickly and easily building new ultimate abstractions. This pearl demonstrates Racket’s power by taking a leisur...

Florence R. Sabin, 1915