A Perceptive Journey through Postmodernism

Chorea: A Journey through History

The original descriptions of chorea date from the Middle Ages, when an epidemic of "dancing mania" swept throughout Europe. The condition was initially considered a curse sent by a saint, but was named "Saint Vitus's dance" because afflicted individuals were cured if they touched churches storing Saint Vitus's relics. Paracelsus coined the term chorea Sancti Viti and recognized different forms ...

Discovering Musical Patterns through Perceptive Heuristics

This paper defends the view that the intricate difficulties challenging the emerging domain of Musical Pattern Discovery, which is dedicated to the automation of motivic analysis, will be overcome only through a thorough taking into account of the specificity of music as a perceptive object. Actual musical patterns, although constantly transformed, are nevertheless perceived by the listener as ...

A journey through disability: a sibling's perspective.

Reviews Chorea: A Journey through History

The original descriptions of chorea date from the Middle Ages, when an epidemic of ‘‘dancing mania’’ swept throughout Europe. The condition was initially considered a curse sent by a saint, but was named ‘‘Saint Vitus’s dance’’ because afflicted individuals were cured if they touched churches storing Saint Vitus’s relics. Paracelsus coined the term chorea Sancti Viti and recognized different fo...

A Replisome’s journey through the bacterial chromosome

Genome duplication requires the coordinated activity of a multi-component machine, the replisome. In contrast to the background of metabolic diversity across the bacterial domain, the composition and architecture of the bacterial replisome seem to have suffered few changes during evolution. This immutability underlines the replisome's efficiency in copying the genome. It also highlights the suc...