kept the sitting posture day and night, for lying down was' quite out of the question, and he dozed at night as he sat. Dr. Gayer, the Civil Surgeon, was so much taken up by the general appearance of the man, contrasted with the huge size of his abdomen, that he took a photographic view of him,?the genitals and lower extremities were as enormously swollen as the head, face aud arms were lean an...

The current dominant perspective on addiction as a brain disease has been challenged recently by Marc Lewis, who argued that the brain-changes related to addiction are similar to everyday changes of the brain. From this alternative perspective, addictions are bad habits that can be broken, provided that people are motivated to change. In that case, autonomous choice or "free will" can overcome ...

This paper shows how to use Computational Algebra techniques, namely the decomposition of rational functions in one variable, to explore a certain set of modular functions, called replicable functions, that arise in Monstrous Moonshine. This is an active topic in Mathematics that links the Monster group and complex analysis due to a surprising relation between the character table of the Monster...