Jacob Weidenmann, Pioneer Landscape Architect

Jacob Weidenmann, Pioneer Landscape Architect

Jacob de la Motta, M.D.: an early American Jewish medical pioneer.

The city of Philadelphia was not only the cradle of American independence, but it was also the birthplace of formal medical education. Up until the latter colonial period, becoming a physician was accomplished by spending several years as an apprentice to a doctor already in practice. It has been estimated that at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, of the thirty-five hundred practicing phy...

Corpus Architect

Abstract. In the Corpus Architect project we are developing a system for creating text corpora, which will be easy to use even for non-technical users. The system creates corpora from two data sources – users’ own text documents and web pages. Users can upload their texts in various formats or ask the system for adding domain specific web texts into their corpora in an automated way. In the lat...

Ignored Architecture, Ignored Architect

Let's face it: Having to deal with a software architect can be, well, also funny – but not necessarily constructive. Any influential person is highly visible and evokes emotional reactions. Personality clashes can lead to mutual ignorance, and team members might deliberately choose to ignore the architect at least occasionally. Sometimes the architecture itself gives good reasons to ignore it. ...

Determining the numbers of a landscape architect species (Tapirus terrestris), using footprints

Background As a landscape architect and a major seed disperser, the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) is an important indicator of the ecological health of certain habitats. Therefore, reliable data regarding tapir populations are fundamental in understanding ecosystem dynamics, including those associated with the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Currently, many population monitoring studies use inv...