The title of my talk, “Living Neoplatonism,” is intentionally ambiguous, for it can refer, first, to Neoplatonism as a living philosophy rather than as a historical artifact embodied in the writings of Plotinus, Proclus, and the rest. And second, it can refer to the practice of living Neoplatonically as a modern way of life. But why Neoplatonism, as opposed to some other philosophy? From my per...

Abstract Background Hemodialysis sessions exert an acute impact on cardiac geometry and mechanics. The recent development of quantitative measurement intracardiac fluid-dynamics offers a new opportinuty to better understand the fine changes in hemodynamics associated with hemodialysis sessions. Our aim was assess hemodialytic session flow dynamics. Methods We included 26 consecutive patients ch...

Between August 20 and 22, 1995, officials and technical experts from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States gathered at a conference sponsored by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in cooperation with Harvard University’s Center for Science and International Affairs, to assess the accomplishments, shortcomings, and fu...

increases in rodents Hillary S. Young*, Rodolfo Dirzo, Kristofer M. Helgen, Douglas J. McCauley, Charles L. Nunn, Paul Snyder, Kari E. Veblen, Serena Zhao and Vanessa O. Ezenwa University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA; Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia 20013, USA; Mpala Research ...

Understanding the allocation of skilled labor across industries is necessary to explain inter-industry wage differences and the effect of trade on wages. This paper develops an assignment model with both labor and non-labor inputs in which the assignment of heterogeneous labor across sectors is driven by variation in non-labor input productivity. A scale of operations effect causes high skill a...

The enforcement of intellectual property rights is dif-cult for digital data. One possibility to support the enforcement is the embedding of digital watermarks containing information about copyright owner and/or receiver of the data. Watermarking methods have already been presented for audio, images, video, and polygonal 3D models. In this paper, we present a method for digital watermarking of ...