Green transportation: myth vs. reality

Modelling, myth vs reality, map vs territory

modeling, representation, analysis Model making and manipulation, conscious or unconscious plays a major role in all of our lives. All of us perceive the world and the day to day problems we need to solve through the filters of internal models, and for better or worse, these filters affect all aspects of our interactions and our decision making. Externalising those models, either formally or in...

Virtual Labs VS Remote Labs: Between Myth & Reality

Many US institutions of higher education have established WEBbased educational environments that provide higher education curricula via the Internet and diverse modalities. Success has been limited primarily to virtual classrooms (real audio/video transmission) and/or test taking (on-line form filling). Following the study of Net-based educational environments, the researchers found that most l...

Judicial Myth and Reality

Mesopancreas: myth or reality?

CONTEXT A recently published study hypothesized the concept of 'mesopancreas', defining it as a firm, well-vascularized structure extending from the posterior surface of the pancreatic head to behind the mesenteric vessels. OBJECTIVE To verify and define mesopancreas from resection specimens obtained from fresh cadavers. DESIGN Postmortem anatomical-pathological study. SETTING Department ...

Unicorn. Myth and reality

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...