"Sublimely non-tendentious," that's the phrase I've always attributed to Alfred North Whitehead -a man who began his career as a Cambridge mathematician collaborating with Bertrand Russell and ended that career as a Harvard philosopher and metaphysician. Two things you can count on when reading Whitehead. First, he will look at the big picture. Second, he will generously give to all historical ...

Computers have lead to a revolution in the games we play, and, following this, an interest for computer-based games has been sparked in research communities. However, this easily leads to the perception of a one-way direction of influence between that the field of game research and computer science. This historical investigation points towards a deep and intertwined relationship between researc...

The Darwinian evolutionary theory is a composite and complex theory elaborated by Darwin during a long period of time, which proposed a new conception of life that evaded the metaphysical and finalist dimension, and which was firmly grounded on the level of scientific and naturalistic explanation. In the new interpretative picture, life emerges as an historical process realized by the descent w...

OBJECTIVE To review the history of 'mood-stabilizing' treatments. METHOD We have reviewed primary source data on the origin of the use of current mood-stabilizers. RESULTS This historical record on the origins of the mood-stabilizers points to a more ambiguous picture as regards pharmacotherapeutic specificity to bipolar disorders than is commonly conceded. CONCLUSIONS This review suggest...

This survey covers the historical development and current state of the art in image understanding for iris biometrics. Most research publications can be categorized as making their primary contribution to one of the four major modules in iris biometrics: image acquisition, iris segmentation, texture analysis and matching of texture representations. Other important research includes experimental...

Ingestion of nitrates in drinking water has long been thought to be a primary cause of acquired infantile methemoglobinemia, often called blue baby syndrome. However, recent research and a review of historical cases offer a more complex picture of the causes of infantile methemoglobinemia. Gastrointestinal infection and inflammation and the ensuing overproduction of nitric oxide may be the caus...

End-to-end quality of service for real-time video delivery over ATM networks depends on both video coding and network performance. Historical measures of QoS for data services have involved packet delivery parameters such as cell loss and delay, but these are not directly representative of a user's perception of the delivered video quality. To this end, this paper describes the use of a video q...

In this project, we improved an existing method that creates an interactive map of Switzerland. This map allows users to easily view aerial pictures from different years. This provides a chronological display of the changes that happened over the years and how both urban and rural areas developed. The map gets created automatically, using historical aerial pictures as inputs. We improved the ex...

History of Film The history of film is the historical development of the medium known variously as cinema, motion pictures, film, or the movies. The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass med...

This study examines the evolution of Greek and Roman medical conceptualizations of preputial aesthetics, utilizing evidence found in classical medical texts as well as clues from literature, legal sources, and art. A conclusive picture emerges that the Greeks valued the longer prepuce and pathologized the penis characterized by a deficient prepuce--especially one that had been surgically ablate...