The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

The life, work, and reception of Nikolai Kliuev (1884-1937) provide striking illustrations of the intense preoccupation in Russian culture with the association between poetry and prophecy, between poet and prophet. Kliuev's work abounds in prophetic statements of many kinds, while he frequently and selfconsciously positioned himself as a "prophet" and explicitly identified his work as "propheti...

Yehoash (the pen name for Solomon Bloomgarden, 1870-1927) was a revered Yiddish poet during the interwar period, the Holocaust, and the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.1 This essay establishes a critical methodology for recovering the work of this important Jewish poet. Before Yiddish poetry became closely identified with modernism, Yehoash’s inclusive and comprehensive aesthetic received ...

Three ordinary differential equations are proposed to model the dynamics of love between Petrarch, a celebrated Italian poet of the 14th century, and Laura, a beautiful but married lady. The equations are nonlinear but can be studied through the singular perturbation approach if the inspiration of the poet is assumed to have very slow dynamics. In such a case, explicit conditions are found in t...

We present a framework which uses POET, an interpreted code transformation language, to effectively combine programmable control from developers, advanced optimizations by compilers, and flexible empirical tuning of optimizations to achieve portable high performance for scientific computing. We have extended ROSE, a C/C++/Fortran source-to-source compiler, to automatically analyze scientific co...

In this short article, we describe a very practical and simple attack on the authentication part of POET authenticated encryption mode proposed at FSE 2014. POET is a provably secure scheme that was designed to resist various attacks where the adversary is allowed to repeat the nonce, or even when the message is output before verifying the validity of the tag when querying the decryption oracle...

With great interest, I read Kompanje’s (2006) clinical case report about a remarkable penis-shortening device invented in 1593 by the surgeon Hildanus. With this letter, I want to point your readers to an even older description of a similar device—not by a medical scholar, but by the great Persian humanist, philosopher, and poet Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273). In his poem, ‘‘The Importa...

Mr. İbrahim Sabri is a poet who was born in period when the Ottoman Empire nearing end and lived last periods of state. Born as son scholar father, he had good education. Both his education talent have been means success poetry. The exile life poet, faced harsh conditions time with family, continued Egypt, which started early youth. language style used by collected poems under name Egyptian Dân...

This article reflects on the author’s biographical poetry project life of Anne Brennan, daughter Australian poet Christopher Brennan and a figure bohemian notoriety in early 20th century Sydney. poses challenges to historians due limited resources her life, as well legacy misogynist representation. Through practice-led research, attempts re-present archive site feminist grief opportunities for ...