Objectivity – to account for nature as it is, free from subjective biases – is a standard of science and commonsense. However, postmodernists distort it into God’s perspective. Because God’s position is beyond human reach, they dismiss objectivity as a sham and relegate all science and knowledge to be nothing but social constructions relative to specific cultures. Their forced choice between tw...

Introduction The software development industry is relatively young, rapidly evolving, and surprisingly little is automated. It is therefore an intensely human and social endeavor, having all the phenomena characteristic of any cultural activity -communication issues, organizational issues, customs, values, fashions, and myths. It brings out the best and the worst in people. Personalities determ...

Mason and Ng have given a generalization to semisimple quasiHopf algebras of Linchenko and Montgomery’s generalization to semisimple Hopf algebras of the classical Frobenius-Schur theorem for group representations. We give a simplified proof, in particular a somewhat conceptual derivation of the appropriate form of the Frobenius-Schur indicator that indicates if and in which of two possible fas...

Within the past six years, a case of bothWaterhouse-Freidrichsen Syndrome and fulminant meningococcemia have presented to Union Memorial Hospital. Both cases presented in markedly different fashions, differed in microbiologic serogrouping, showed minimal histopathologic similarities; however achieved ultimately the same outcome through two different pathological pathways. The following case rep...

Recent structural information for complexes of cytokine receptor ectodomains bound to their ligands has significantly expanded our understanding of the macromolecular topology and ligand recognition mechanisms used by our three principal shared cytokine signaling receptors-gp130, gamma(c), and beta(c). The gp130 family receptors intricately coordinate three structurally unique cytokine-binding ...

Abstract This article examines the dress of female civic rights activist Théroigne de Méricourt and its political significance in Revolutionary Paris. The first section discusses symbolism her iconic scarlet riding habit. second explores role equestrian fashions Théroigne's strategy self‐fashioning as a actor. third considers change habit into tricolour ensemble, traditionally interpreted parod...

First, we recall the successive steps of the task performed by a bibliography processor such as BibTEX. Then we sketch a brief history of the successive methods and fashions of processing the bibliographies of (LA)TEX documents. In particular, we show what is new in the LATEX2ε packages natbib, jurabib, and biblatex. The problems unsolved or with difficult implementations are listed, and we sho...

[The hobby of ocean] “sailing is like standing day after day in a cold shower tearing up five-dollar bills.” Anonymous blue water sailor In a Luann comic strip Luann is doing her nails. Brad asks “What’s that, another new nail polish?” Luann answers “Yup, after it dries, it still looks wet.” Brad asks “Why do you want it to look wet when it’s dry?” Luann replies testily “I don’t know Brad. I’m ...

Recently, the process of how ideas and influence propagate through a social network has drawn extensive research efforts. It lies in the core of understanding the diffusion of news, fashions and innovations, it also plays important roles in marketing strategies, virus and pollution control. This reaction paper focuses on: (i) summarization of literatures in influence maximization and outbreak d...