Today, two serpent motifs are commonly used to symbolize the practice and profession of medicine. Internationally, the most popular symbol of medicine is the single serpent-entwined staff of Asklepios (Latin, Aesculapius), the ancient Greco-Roman god of medicine. However, in the United States, the staff of Asklepios (the Asklepian) and a double serpent-entwined staff with surmounting wings (the...

The way we experience and estimate time - subjective time - does not systematically correspond to objective time (the physical duration of an event). Many factors can influence subjective time and lead to mental dilation or compression of objective time. The emotional valence of stimuli or the levels of attention or expectancy are known to modulate subjective time even though objective time is ...

Correction to: S. Greco et al. (Eds.): Metaheuristics for Combinatorial Optimization, AISC 1332, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68520-1 The book was inadvertently published with the incorrect volume number (1336) and this has been corrected now (1332).

In this paper, we explore the possibility of transforming queries with minimum and maximum predicates into equivalent queries that can be computed more efficiently. The main contribution of the paper is an algorithm for propagating min and max predicates while preserving query equivalence under certain monotonicity constraints. We show that the algorithm is correct and that the transformed quer...

Despite nearly a decade of paclitaxel’s commercial availability, the best strategy for managing several paclitaxel-related toxicities including myalgia/arthralgia remains to be elucidated. Most available data in the treatment of myalgia/ arthralgia have been anecdotal, reported in the form of case studies or within the toxicity results of published paclitaxel-containing clinical trials. Garriso...

The author discusses the validity of the claim that, in Antiquity, effective contraceptives and abortifacients were available, were widely used, and their use was responsible for the decline of population in certain periods. After reviewing the maneuvers and drugs used for those purposes, the author concludes that ancient physicians did not have at their disposal effective contraceptives and ab...

The cultural evolution of introspective thought has been recognized to undergo a drastic change during the middle of the first millennium BC. This period, known as the "Axial Age," saw the birth of religions and philosophies still alive in modern culture, as well as the transition from orality to literacy-which led to the hypothesis of a link between introspection and literacy. Here we set out ...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to investigate the pharmacodynamic interaction between rocuronium and cisatracurium using the response surface model, which is not subject to the limitations of traditional isobolographic analysis. METHODS One hundred and twenty patients were randomly allocated to receive one of the fifteen predefined combinations of rocuronium and cisatracurium. To study s...

English. We present a method to explore semantic change as a function of variation in distributional semantic spaces. In this paper we apply this approach to automatically identify the areas of semantic change in the lexicon of Ancient Greek between the pre-Christian and Christian era. Distributional Semantic Models are used to identify meaningful clusters and patterns of semantic shift within ...