Analysis of the Greenland ice core covering the period from 3000 to 500 years ago-the Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance times-shows that lead is present at concentrations four times as great as natural values from about 2500 to 1700 years ago (500 B.C. to 300 A.D.). These results show that Greek and Roman lead and silver mining and smelting activities polluted the middle troposphere of the...

are given in a home contemporary. He was the eldest son of Dr. David Macbeth Moir, of Musselburgh, the well-known " Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine, author of the novel Mansie Waugh, a history of ancient medicine and other works, and a poet of great refinement and feeling. Robert Moir was educated at the Musselburgh Grammar School and Edinburgh Academy, and studied medicine iii the University of...

A worker in basic scientific research is motivated by a driving curiosity about the unknown. When his explorations yield new knowledge, he experiences the satisfaction of those who first attain the summit of a mountain or the upper reaches of a river flowing through unmapped territory. Discovery of truth and understanding of nature are his objectives. His professional standing among his fellows...

In FSE 2014, an authenticated encryption mode COBRA [4], based on pseudorandom permutation (PRP) blockcipher, and POET [3], based on Almost XOR-Universal (AXU) hash and strong pseudorandom permutation (SPRP), were proposed. Few weeks later, COBRA mode and a simple variant of the original proposal of POET (due to a forging attack [13] on the original proposal) with AES as an underlying blockciph...

The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the teachings of Fournier on syphilis, and to that of Finger and Neisser on gonorrhoea. Dr. Marshall also emphasizes the importance of both syphilis and gonorrhoea, " the oldest diseases which afflict mankind," as etiological factors in disease. The historical chapter is very interesting. It is clearly shown that syphilis was well known before the gre...

ever since the rise of christianity, the bible has played a key role in the christian religiosity. it was a guide to faith, a supreme source of belief and morals, the standard of christian orthodoxy, and a means of combating heresies; for a great majority of christians, it continues to enjoy the same position. after the renaissance, the biblical studies, in terms of authorship, style of writing...

If the goal of eliciting accurate user preferences over a com­ plex value space is to be realized, the elicitation process must be through while at the same time not overly burdensome to the user. An ideal preference elicitation tool would max­ imize the information about preferences acquired from the user while minimizing the number of queries required. To this end, we present POET: the Online...