Editorial introduction: Philipp Frank, a physicist-turned-philosopher

Editorial: Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist

The events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan prompted an editorial(1) written by Bill Hendee, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Physics, in which he discussed the role of medical physicists as potential volunteers in responding to public health emergencies, especially radiological emergencies of various types. In order to obtain more widespread dissemination of this informatio...

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time.

Editorial: Introduction and Motivations

If you google for “open system” you get plenty of information about security services and consulting firms, as well as IT companies and industries. They explain about firewalls, vpn, intrusion detection, security standards, violations, protection of corporate assets, anti-spam, anti-virus, authentication, service and maintenance, proxy, and audits. Their mission is “to build and foster relation...

Comment on Frank Gannon's EMBO reports editorial "address bias".

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Logic in India - Editorial Introduction

The most remarkable feature of Indian formal logic (as it was reflected by the most advanced system of Indian logic, by Navya–Nyaya) is clearly a close connection of a logical formalism to a linguistic material . . . A common characteristic of Indian knowledge on all stages of its existence was a consistent intentionalism, whereas European logic was still a predominantly extentional one. Import...