More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

We report, here, on a project to port the Inferno operating system to the Sun SPOT sensor platform. The port provides support for the temperature and light sensors, the threeaxis accelerameter, LEDs, momentary contact switches, and GPIO pins. Communication among sensors is provided by an IPv6 implementation running over the integrated 802.15.4 radios.

To cite: Artul S, Abu Rahmah Y, Abu Shkara H, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014203613 DESCRIPTION A 19-year-old man presented to emergency department with acute scrotum of the left testis. On physical examination, it was difficult to distinguish clinically between testicular torsion and orchitis. Ultrasound of the scrotum showed normal ec...

This paper focuses on the anabasis and katabasis narratives inspired by Dante in works of most representative Polish romantics: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859) Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821-1883). It was Divina Commedia which exercised greatest influence poets, especially Inferno, became a forerunner reality itself. But whereas Dante’s Infer...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2014 (“New Perspectives on Intellectual Freedom,” edited by Mark McCallon), pp. 27–41. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Chicago Public Library employed a brand of casual candid censorship embraced by its peers. In 1910 the Chicago Tribune favorably reported on a so-called “Book Infern...