We address an argument by Floridi (2009, 2011), to the effect that digital and analogue are not features of reality, only of modes of presentation of reality. One can therefore have an informational ontology, like Floridi’s Informational Structural Realism, without commitment to a supposedly digital or analogue world. After introducing the topic in Section 1, in Section 2 we explain what the pr...

The writings of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, Bauhaus theorists and pioneers of nonrepresentational art, are the framework for a discussion of contemporary issues in computational design. Kandinsky and Klee wrote of the many misguided dualisms in the art theory and pedagogy of their time. They sought to reconcile the seemingly mutually exclusive issues associated with abstraction in art. Som...

background: the study of electrocardiographic parameters of buffalo in comparison to other large animals is very scanty. electrocardiography is a very important tool to diagnose cardiac diseases. in this case, standardization of ecg of each species of animal or even each breed should be carried out. this is due to the fact that ecg parameters are related to many factors such as size, breed, sex...

Dear Editor We read the article by Bagheri et al with great interest (1). We found the study interesting and comprehensive as four groups of patients, including operative and nonoperative in either pure dislocation or fracture dislocation, were compared in terms of Mayo wrist score, Grip strength, range of motion and radiographic parameters. It seems that the results were comparable to studies ...

Most people perceive and interpret reality in terms of either/or: someone is either good or bad, friendly or unfriendly, intelligent or stupid, loving or unloving—and the list could be continued indefinitely, not only for qualities of people but also for anything else. Thus, reality is perceived in terms of mutually exclusive opposites. But is reality really like that? Or is this opposition our...

Biphasic waveforms have been suggested as a superior waveform for ventricular defibrillation. To test this premise, a prospective randomized intraoperative evaluation of defibrillation efficacy of monophasic and biphasic waveform pulses was performed in 22 survivors of out of hospital ventricular fibrillation who were undergoing cardiac surgery for implantation of an automatic defibrillator. Th...

The distinction between reference ontologies and application ontologies crept rather unobtrusively into the recent literature on knowledge engineering. A lot of the discourse surrounding this distinction – notably, the one framing the workshop generating this collection of papers – suggests the two types of ontologies are in some sort of opposition to one another. Thus, Borge et al. [3] charact...

Exponentially growing monolayer cultures of 9L rat brain tumor cells were treated with either 5-fluorouracil or methotrexate. The surviving fraction of cells was determined by a colony formation assay. After 5-fluorouracil treatment, 2 to 5 X 10(5) feeder cells were required to maximize surviving fractions for each drug concentration and to generate a biphasic dose-response curve. If only 1 X 1...