Constructions of Intersubjectivity (CoI) is an important addition to the growing body of work on ‘cognitive’ and construction-based grammars, which CoI links to evolutionary issues in interesting ways. CoI also touches upon a number of fundamental (indeed philosophical) issues in the study of linguistic communication, meaning, and human cognition; it should be applauded for the explicitness wit...

The latest rendition of Nezhat’s Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy builds upon the success of the previous works with a comprehensive review of minimally invasive gynecologic procedures. In this third edition, the Nezhat family has assembled an impressive list of contributors to cover the full spectrum of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. The book begins with forewords by...

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In reply to a question on July 11th, the Minister of Health stated that the Government welcomed the imaginative concept of World Mental Health Year; and that his Ministry had been cooperating with those responsible for the arrangements for observing the Year in this country, including Mental Health Week. On August 5th, Miss Edith Pitt, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health announced...

Hebrew University awards the Scopus Award to Lord Norman Foster [1] artnet news Hebrew University awards the Scopus Award to Lord Norman Foster, designer of the Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building Golden brains, golden lips, and golden balls were the three focal points of last night?s Scopus Award Gala at the Campus Biotech in Geneva.

The availability of inexpensive and powerful graphics cards as well as fast Internet connections make networked virtual environments viable for millions of users and many new applications. It is therefore necessary to cope with the growing heterogeneity that arises from differences in computing power, network speed, and users’ preferences. This paper describes an architecture that accommodates ...

The author presents “Existential Technology” as a new category of in(ter)ventions and as a new theoretical framework for understanding privacy and identity. His thesis is twofold: (1) The unprotected individual has lost ground to invasive surveillance technologies and complex global organizations that undermine the humanistic property of the individual; (2) A way for the individual to be free a...

This paper presents a novel evolutionary optimization strategy based on the derandomized evolution strategy with covariance matrix adaptation (CMA-ES). This new approach is intended to reduce the number of generations required for convergence to the optimum. Reducing the number of generations, i.e., the time complexity of the algorithm, is important if a large population size is desired: (1) to...