One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that caused the death of 146 garment workers, a garment fire on November 24, 2012 in Bangladesh resulted in 111 deaths under remarkably similar circumstances. The majority of these workers were also young women, economically disadvantaged, migrants, and, by any definition, vulnerable. Fires have been a persistent prob...

Visual experience is known to induce developmental plasticity in visual cortex; now, Tian and Copenhagen report that experience regulates the development of retinal circuitry itself. Both pruning of retinal ganglion dendrites into ON or OFF sublamina and the emergence of pure ON versus OFF responses require visual experience.

This paper describes how to add tags to extract knowledge from information for intelligent design support. Our project called Universal Abduction Studio (UAS) aims to build a new design support system that supports conceptual design by dynamically integrating various superficially irrelevant knowledge in different design domains. This paper focuses on knowledge description form which can be use...

We study multi-pulse solutions in excitable media. Under the assumption that a single pulse is asymptotically stable, we show that there is a well-defined ”shooting manifold”, consisting of two pulses traveling towards each other. In the phase space, the two-dimensional manifold is a graph over the manifold of linear superpositions of two pulses located at x1 and x2, with x1 − x2 1. It is local...

Well-designed templates of electronic patient record (EPR) are efficient for consistent and standardized records. Template definition language (TDL) 1 , which can represent the content and structure of EPR template, was developed to promote sharing of templates among clinics and institutions. TDL is one of the many applications of XML therefore a TDL document is a human-readable tagged text and...

Mind that Found Itself. By Clifford Whittingham Beers. New York and London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. Pp. 362. "A Mind that Found Itself" is a wonderfully graphic account of the wandering of a mind set adrift, recorded by that mind after it had once more found its moorings. The author describes, as only one who has experienced them can describe, the vividly realistic hallucinations and terri...