Jews crowded into the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II were desperate for any avenue of resistance or escape, not only physically but also mentally. In the ghetto concentration camp Theresienstadt, the prisoner-run Ghetto Central Library, complete with bookmobile system, reading room, and branch libraries, served as a reminder that minds and imaginations remained active and free,...

We discuss a complete, efficient, effective, and practically verified platform for rapidly developing and deploying adhoc wireless networks consisting of hundreds to thousands of inexpensive nodes. We demonstrate how, with the assistance of some self-tunable heuristics, flooding can be tamed and turned into a highly efficient and robust forwarding scheme, in which the resources needed to sustai...

Affiliations: Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, London, UK. Dept of Respiratory Medicine, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Health Partners, London, UK. Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, School of Transplantation, Immun...

The world is not just diversified. In fact, it atomized according to interests, ideas, or agendas; needs maximum flexibility in responding increasingly broad-ranging challenges. This makes very difficult maintain cohesion. It can only be done with the help of heavy artillery, figuratively and, unfortunately, literally.

The phrase "pragmatic enrichment" is sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to the process in virtue of which the content conveyed by an utterance comes to include all sorts of elements which are contextually implied without being part of what the utterance literally means. In his class notes "Pragmatic Enrichment : Introduction by Examples," Chris Potts gives examples like the following: (1)...

Gaps between worldviews prevent students from interpreting displays literally, and thus limit the extent to which communication can be achieved by representing knowledge accurately. Hence, rather than merely representing mental models accurately, designers must focus on supporting communicative practices. I suggest four specific design principles within a mediated collaborative inquiry perspect...

concerning purpose of man’s creation there, at least, can be two viewpoints. first, man has no purpose but to participate in the competition of gathering wealth, reaching high ranks in the society, and taking power ignoring all human virtues and principles, as if he would live for good and death would never capture him. this is the practical conduct of human beings in general. the second is tha...