The book by E. N. Tigerstedt Interpreting Plato sums up the development of Platonic studies and heritage in understanding Plato’s philosophy over previous two hundred years. Finnish researcher builds his review on methodological principles not only individual researchers, but also entire areas. A literary critic editor profession, carried love antiquity through whole life, this was both result ...

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Ticagrelor in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes and Stroke: Interpretation of Subgroups in Clinical Trials” Drs Serebruany and DiNicolantonio are repeatedly accusing the platelet inhibition and patient outcomes (PLATO) investigators, executive committee, and sponsor for trial misconduct and deliberate misinterpretations. These are extremely serious ac...

In one of his paintings, the School of Athens, Raphael is depicting Leonardo da Vinci as the philosopher Plato. Some image processing tools can help us in comparing this portrait with two Leonardo's portraits, considered as self-portraits. The "Scuola di Atene" is one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance artist. Painted between 1510 and 1511, this fresco decorates th...

Sensors generate large amounts of spatiotemporal data that have to be stored and analyzed. However, spatiotemporal data still lack the equivalent of a DBMS that would allow their declarative analysis. We argue that the reason for this is that DBMSs have been built with the assumption that the stored data are the ground truth. This is not the case with sensor measurements, which are merely incom...

There are presently many and seemingly different optimization algorithms, based on unrelated paradigms. Herein we propose a framework to encompass those heuristics, providing a common working structure and a basis for their comparison. A formal de nition, based on the multiset formalism is presented. We also show how to express some common operators in our framework and we present some (partial...

OBJECTIVE Treatment effects to binary endpoints using time-to-event data in randomised controlled trials are typically summarised by reporting HRs derived with Cox proportional hazard models. Alternative and complementary methods include summarising the between-treatment differences on the metric time scale, quantifying the effect as delay of the event (DoE). The aim of this study was to reasse...

Th e treatise De spiritu of the Corpus Aristotelicum deserves better treatment than it has received since W. Jaeger in his 1913 article rejected its authenticity and dated it one hundred years after Aristotle. In this paper the authors argue that De spiritu defends purely Aristotelian viewpoints against persons like Plato and Empedocles, who held respiration to be the most important vital proce...

since plato is regarded as the first philosopher who started writing on aesthetics and impacted upon artistic aesthetics following him, a review of his perspective on artistic aesthetic is of crucial importance. although fine arts in its current form have not existed at the time of plato, his ideas could be discovered from what he has sporadically expressed on fine arts. there are two viewpoint...

A technique-:was developed to facilitate creating computer-based instruction (CBI) with a Minimum of effort On the part of the-author/coder, and 'the feasibility of using a structure which puts control of the lesson strategy into the hands of the_student learner was investigated. A model which relieve* tire author' of CBI strategy selection was developed for the PLATO IV sySted and was testedin...