یکی از خلاقانه­ترین نمونه­های بازخوانی اسطوره در ادبیات آلمانی­زبان رمان جهان آخر اثر نویسندۀ اتریشی کریستف رانس­مایر است که آن اسناد تاریخی دربارۀ زندگی شاعر ملی رم باستان اوید و بن­مایه­های کتاب دگردیسی­های او قالب پیرنگ مدرنی بازنمایی شده­اند. روایت­های کهن را با تجربه­های زیستی تفکر انتقادی معاصر درهم آمیخته روایت نشانه­های انحطاط همه­جانبه­ای مشاهده کرده به باور وی ویژگی­های تمدن امروز بشر...

The field of computational complexity is reaching what could be termed middle age, with over forty years having passed since the first papers defining the discipline. With this metaphor in mind, the early nineteeneighties represented the end of adolescence for the area, the time when it stopped wondering what it would be when it grew up. During the childhood period of the sixties, research cent...

The extraembryonic membranes [5] that surround and originate from the embryos of vertebrates such as birds [6], reptiles, and mammals are crucial to their development. They are integral to increasing the surface area of the uterus [7], forming the chorion [8] (which in turn produces the placenta [9]) and the amnion [10], respectively. The amnion [10] will ultimately surround the embryo in a flu...

Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early researchers who studied the syndrome that was later named after him, Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger described the syndrome in his 1944 publication Die Autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter (Autistic Psychopathy in Childhood). At that time, the syndrome was c...