Since the social and political revolutions of the eighteenth century, the trend in western political thought has been to refuse to take for granted inequalities between persons or groups. Differential and unequal treatment has continued, of course, but it has been considered incumbent on modern societies to produce a rational explanation for such treatment. In recent decades, historians and oth...

In this note, we discuss a very nice and important application of modular arithmetic: the RSA public-key cryptosystem, named after its inventors Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. Cryptography is an ancient subject that really blossomed into its modern form at the same time1 as the other great revolutions in the general fields of information science/engineering. The basic setting fo...

Knowledge domain visualization is a visual exploratory approach to the study of the development of a knowledge domain. In this study, we focus on the practical issues concerning modeling and visualizing scientific revolutions. We study the growth patterns of specialties derived from citation and cocitation data on string theory in physics. Special attention is given to the two superstring revol...

CEAS120 Narrating China: Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature This course is a selective reading of important themes and texts in modern and contemporary Chinese literature by authors hailing from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Chinese borderlands like Tibet and Xinjiang. We examine how literary authors narrate China through its changes and heteroge...

CEAS120 Narrating China: Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature This course is a selective reading of important themes and texts in modern and contemporary Chinese literature by authors hailing from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Chinese borderlands like Tibet and Xinjiang. We examine how literary authors narrate China through its changes and heteroge...

■ Abstract The transition from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic is considered one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind. Explanations of the observable archaeological phenomena in Eurasia, or the lack of such evidence in other regions, include biological arguments (the role of Cro-Magnons and the demise of the Neanderthals), as well as cultural-technological, an...