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The Arena: December 1966: Arena

The Arena: December 1965: Arena

Resurrecting the Dead (Molecules)

Biological molecules, like organisms themselves, are subject to genetic drift and may even become "extinct". Molecules that are no longer extant in living systems are of high interest for several reasons including insight into how existing life forms evolved and the possibility that they may have new and useful properties no longer available in currently functioning molecules. Predicting the se...

The Resurrecting Duckling - What Next?

In the context of the security of wireless ad hoc networks, we previously explored the problem of secure transient association between a master and a slave device in the absence of an online authentication server. We introduced the Resurrecting Duckling security policy model to address this problem. Master-slave relationships, however, do not exhaust the range of interesting interactions. We th...

Resurrecting melancholia.

OBJECTIVE To define melancholia as a distinct mood disorder, identified by unremitting depressed mood, vegetative dysfunction, and psychomotor disturbances, verifiable by neuroendocrine tests, and treatable by electroconvulsive therapy and tricyclic antidepressants. METHOD A review of the literature of two centuries finds descriptions of severe mood disorders, either depression or mania or ci...