BACKGROUND Aesthetics and functional significance of the cerebral cortical relief gave us the idea to find out how often the convolutions are presented in fine art, and in which techniques, conceptual meaning and pathophysiological aspect. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined 27,614 art works created by 2,856 authors and presented in art literature, and in Google images search. RESULTS The cer...

In this article, we discuss Badiou’s concept of the world through somewhat unusual metaphor “the anatomy world”. The allows us to approach idea ​​its constitution, architecture, structure – its anatomy. But as show in first part text, order derive world, need a corpse must die. Following philosophy Alain Badiou, demonstrate that objective existence is indifferent question life and death. Whethe...

This paper examines a decision support system (DSS) for the appraisal of complex decision problems using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). The DSS makes use of a structured hierarchical approach featuring the multiplicative AHP also known as the REMBRANDT technique. The paper addresses the influence of the progression factor used when transforming the decisionmakers verbal responses from...

La retina como marcador biológico de daño neuronal Artículos originales Comparación de tres instrumentos de tomografía de coherencia óptica, un time-domain y dos Fourierdomain, en la estimación del grosor de la capa de fibras nerviosas de la retina Idoneidad de tratamiento en sospechosos de glaucoma. Estudio de concordancia con el grupo de estudio RAND Atrofia de la capa de fibras nerviosas de ...

A definition of pictorial style in terms of distinctive combinations of pictorial devices characteristic of a particular culture or period or the work of an individual artist is proposed. Four kinds of pictorial structure are described: the drawing (spatial) systems, the denotation systems, the mark systems and the attributes systems. Three pictures by Poussin, Rembrandt and the Achilles painte...