Herbal medicines are often perceived by the general public as a “soft” alternative to Western Medicine, but the use of these substances can be risky since they can induce nocebo effect [1]. In 1961 Walter Kennedy chosen the term nocebo (Latin for I will harm) as the counterpart of placebo [2]. This term was introduced a few years after Henry Beecher published his paper on the placebo effect [3]...

Variation in Cognitive Control as Emotion Regulation Blair Saunders, Marina Milyavskaya & Michael Inzlicht a Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada b Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada c Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and Rotman School of Manag...

Walter Wunderlich was one of the most influential Austrian kinematicians in the 20th century. He wrote more than 200 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, geometry and kinematics. Because of his influence, kinematic geometry is still an important subject in the curricula of geometry teachers’ education in Austria.

and time. However, it’s not all about machines taking over from field workers. Technology can also help to get more people involved with field work in ecology and conservation. The Earthwatch Institute (www.earthwatch.org), for instance, supports a project called My Tree Tracker, based on a smartphone app encouraging volunteers to keep an eye on the growth and health of the trees in their citie...

The successful application to elliptic curve cryptography of side-channel attacks, in which information about the secret key can be recovered from the observation of side channels like power consumption, timing, or electromagnetic emissions, has motivated the recent development of unified formulæ for elliptic curve point operations. In this paper, we show how an attack introduced by Walter can ...

The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers late 19th century, such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Rose Terry Cooke, Annie Trumbull Slosson, and Sarah Orne Jewett, known post-bellum regional realists, were actually continuing certain elements Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poetics fiction. Describing in their short stories novels England’s demographic, economic, cultural d...