The present status of the problem of neutrino mass, mixing and neutrino oscillations is briefly summarized. The evidence for oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos found recently in the Super-Kamiokande experiment is discussed together with the results of the solar neutrino experiments and the accelerator LSND experiment.

Historical trends in face perception research during the past half century are summarized. The dual process model offered by cognitive neuroscientists to account for the perception of identity and emotion expression in the face is briefly reviewed together with supporting evidence. An ecological approach that incorporates missing pieces of face perception is offered as an additional, broader co...

Contemporary information systems are generally built on the principle of segregation of data and processes. Data are modeled in terms of entities and relationships while processes are modeled as chains of events and activities. This situation engenders an impedance mismatch between the process layer, the business logic layer and the data layer. We discuss some of the issues that this impedance ...

Since the emergence of the field in the 1970s, several trends have begun to challenge the original assumptions, claims, and practices of what became known as the medical humanities. In this article, the authors make the case for the health humanities as a more encompassing label because it captures recent theoretical and pedagogical developments in higher education such as the shift from rigid ...

Stellarium: Finally at Version 1.0! And Beyond

Modern professions provide important and essential services like engineering, financial services, and welfare state services. Sustaining a sufficient supply of these services requires professionals to remain in the workforce as long as possible. This article examines variation in the risk of disability pension among individuals with different professional education backgrounds according to the ...

high point of human achievement, or, in George Bernard Shaw’s piquant phrase, as a “conspiracy against the laity,” there is little question that they have played a dominant role in industrial and postindustrial society since the early twentieth century. It is dif1⁄2cult to envision our era without the physicians, lawyers, and accountants to whom we turn for help at crucial times; or the archite...

A number of professions in the service industries like telephonist, receptionist or announcer at the railway station can be observed to be typically occupied by women. Intelligibility is of crucial importance in these professions. The main task of people in the service industries is to inform the public and sometimes there is a lot of noise which troubles the messages. Are women preferred in th...