A conversation with Eric Olson

A Conversation with Eric Nestler.

Dr. Nestler: Yes, exactly. Most of the depression field has utilized what are called despair tests, something like the forced swim test where a mouse or rat would be placed in a beaker of water. It would swim for a while, then stop. People say that when it stops it’s despairing although we really have no reason to think that. When you give the animal an acute dose of an antidepressant, it swims...

A Conversation with Eric Breitung

E ric Breitung is a Ph.D. chemist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since moving into the world of art conservation after a job in industry, he has studied the dye chemistry of central Asian textiles, worked to find new ways to test degraded audio tapes for playability, and devised better coatings for silver museum piecesall using analytical techniques and other chemical lab methods. He spoke...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

k-BARYCENTRIC OLSON CONSTANT

Let G be a finite Abelian group of order n. A k-sequence in G is said to be barycentric if it contains an element which is the “average” of its terms. The kbarycentric Olson constant BO(k, G) is introduced as the minimal positive integer t such that any t-set in G contains a k-barycentric set. Conditions for the existence of BO(k, G) are established and some values or bounds are given. Moreover...

Steve Kitchen , John D . Olson and F . Eric Preston Quality in Laboratory Hemostasis and Thrombosis Second Edition