Mary Shelley’s milieu, brought to life

Brought back to life: a case study in hypothermia.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Exposing Twitter Users to Contrarian News

Polarized topics often spark discussion and debate on social media. Recent studies have shown that polarized debates have a specific clustered structure in the endorsement network, which indicates that users direct their endorsements mostly to ideas they already agree with. Understanding these polarized discussions and exposing social media users to content that broadens their views is of param...

Review of Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine, Science Museum, London,  www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife.aspx.

There is an increasing amount of content relating to the history of medicine appearing online and many of our journals are adding 'media' or 'digital humanities' review sections. Yet, unlike book reviews, it remains unclear how scholars should go about writing a peer-review of a website. This review of Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine makes an attempt to outline the criteria b...

Security control brought back to the user

The activity of the Ph.D. student Juri Luca De Coi involved the research field of policy languages and can be divided in three parts. The first part of the Ph.D. work investigated the state of the art in policy languages, ending up with ∙ identifying the requirements up-to-date policy languages have to fulfill ∙ defining a policy language able to fulfill such requirements (namely, the Protune p...

The sad and tragic life of Typhoid Mary.

As society grapples with contemporary moral questions raised by the barring of HIV-infected people from jobs and even crossing some national borders, it is probably useful to re-examine the case of Typhoid Mary. The case of Mary Mallon shows how an earlier age resolved the conflict that arises when society's right to protect itself from unnecessary exposure to disease impinges on the liberty of...