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Computing in Architectural Design: A Reflective Perspective From Deadly Sins and Arguable Virtues to a New Generation of CAAD

This paper introduces a reflective perspective on the role of computing in architectural design over the generations of computer aided architectural designs. Paradigms of the design process and computational models of designing are discussed. The evolution of computer aided architectural design is investigated. Both deadly sins and arguable virtues of computing in architecture and their implica...

How might global health master deadly sins and strive for greater virtues?

In the spirit of critical reflection, we examine how the field of global health might surmount current challenges and prioritize its ethical mandate, namely to achieve, for all people, equity in health. We use the parlance of mastering deadly sins and striving for greater virtues in an effort to review what is needed to transform global health action. Global health falls prey to four main tempt...

Dante's Inferno: Seven Deadly Sins in Scientific Publishing and How to Avoid Them

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

Acedia: Its Evolution from Deadly Sin to Psychiatric Syndrome.

lohannes Cassianus, more commonly known as John Cassian, wrote his treatise De Institutis Coenobiorumci de OctoPrincipalium Vitiorum Remediis Libri XII around the beginning of the fifth century A.D. This work is important because it introduced certain Eastern ideas into Western thought. Some of these ideas are of considerable psychiatric interest. Cassian first studied with St. Jerome in the Ea...

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