In his seminal book on the historical periods of Western attitudes toward death, Philippe Aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. According to him, the historical attitudes of Western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: "Tamed Death," One's Own Death," "Thy Death," and "Forbidden Death." This paper, after explori...

Of American poets taught regularly in secondary education, the two most ill-served, it seems to me, are Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.1 [1] Students are typically introduced to these poets through their most-anthologized poems, and the majority of these are chosen in part for their accessibility--not too undaunting conceptually, and technically fluid--but also for a sort of charmingness, alb...

We present a high-level enterprise system architecture that closely models the domain ontology of resource and information flows in enterprises. It is: Process-oriented: formal, user-definable specifications for the expected exchange of resources (money, goods, and services), notably contracts, are represented explicitly in the system state to reflect expectations on future events; Event-driven...

This patient underwent breast surgery and a sentinel node biopsy performed shortly before the blood was taken. As part of the biopsy procedure, a dye (Patent Blue) is injected into the lymphatic system. After injection, patients are commonly noted to take on a grey appearance, and urine has a green discolouration . A striking green appearance of the serum has also been reported, but is seen unc...