O ne of the first hospitals in the Western world was the Aesculapium which was built in Rome along the Tiber Island in 293 bc and included a long-term recovery center. When the emperor Claudius granted freedom to slaves who had been there for years, it was probably aimed more at disposition of the patients and recovery of the beds they occupied than emancipation. The symbols which reflect the h...

After the discovery of adrenaline, the rudimentary ideas of neurotransmission were developed in the 20-year period 18901910. It is entwined with the concept of neural transmission by humoral substances initiated in 1656 by Thomas Wharton and by Glisson, who associated the adrenal glands with nerve plexuses. How this linkage functioned was unknown until Claude Bernard showed that adrenal glands ...

The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing and related technologies is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law. This paper aims to present a layperson's introduction to the copyright law principles most pertinent to peer-to-peer developers, including contributory and vicarious liability principles and potential legal defenses. After describing the current shape of the law, the paper conc...

Alice Meynell’s adherence to a reserved lyrical mode could be read as desire maintain sense of teleological order, in which the ironic timelessness moment reinforces divine purpose material. However, silences and reserve for work is known instead reinforce paradoxical moments trauma that are held up unspoken impossible understand within human experience. The intensity lyric depends on visceral ...

The name Albuca caudata Jacq. has been widely misunderstood or even ignored since its description in 1791. After studying herbarium specimens and living populations in South Africa, plants fitting Jacquin´s concept of that species are found to be widely distributed in the Eastern Cape, mainly in the Albany centre of Endemism. Furthermore, some divergent specimens matching Baker´s concept of Alb...

CORRECTION After publication of this work [1] it was noticed the author - Jie Wang's name was in the wrong order. The original article was corrected. The publisher apologises for this error.