The world as it is made to seem

Screening is not as simple as it may seem.

The first is that the guideline and the defense of the guideline reflect an attitude of paternalism toward both primary care physicians and the patient. It is unfortunate that the guideline recommends an intervention without quantifying the benefit or the harm. We recognize that the weight of evidence suggests lipid screening is a good idea, but when a mother asks, “How effective is this? What ...

Multimodal Mediators to the World as it is Currently Designed

Information technology should be accessible to all users. Above all disabled persons in a public environment depend on such accessibility to today’s information technology (e.g. cash dispensers, ticket selling machines, etc.). In this article we show how multimodality can be used to provide universal accessibility to public kiosk systems making assistive technology applicable in the public spac...

Maximum Entropy Approach Is Not As Arbitrary As It May Seem at First Glance

When we only have partial information about the probability distribution, i.e., when several different probability distributions are consistent with our knowledge, then it makes sense to select a distribution with the largest entropy. In particular, when we only know that the quantity is located within a certain interval – and we have no information about the probability of different values wit...

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

Taking the World as It Is: Three Essays in Marketing