Introduction: Dickensian Views

A Dickensian origin for Sherrington's enchanted loom?

Sherrington's image of the mind-brain as an 'enchanted loom' has intrigued scientists for decades. Its origin, however, has been unclear. Here, we make a new suggestion as to where it may have come from. The article sheds light on the connections between literary and scientific similes and metaphors.

What Object Attributes Determine Canonical Views? Introduction

We investigated preferred or canonical views for familiar and novel three-dimensional objects using computer-graphics psychophysics. We assessed the canonical views for objects by allowing participants to actively rotate realistically shaded three-dimensional models in real-time. Objects were viewed on a Silicon Graphics Workstation and manipulated in virtual space using a three degree-of-freed...

An Introduction to Policy Delphi; A tool for discovering the opposing views on health policy issues

Objective: In this review, we investigated various aspects of Policy Delphi technique to make decision-makers more aware of this pertinent method so that they can use it in their policy decisions in their organizations. Information sources and selected methods for study: This study was conducted using a review method and by searching the related literature in databases such as PubMed, Scopus a...

Trauma, memory, and railway disaster: the Dickensian Connection.

Lecture 1 : The PCP Theorem – Introduction and two views

It is more convenient to work with the decision equivalents as they are simpler though they are polynomially equivalent to the original computational problems. The theory of NP-completeness discusses the hardness of these computational problems by studying the hardness of the equivalent decision problems. Similarly, when we study approximation algorithms for computational problems, it is often ...