Modernity: Are Modern Times Different?

Modern Times

Invasion of the RFIDs: are we heading towards "Modern Times"?

RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification tags) are small integrated circuits connected to an antenna, which can respond to an interrogating RF signal with simple identifying information, or with more complex signals. The main objective of these tags is to store data and make it readily available as well as ensuring that it is safely stored in or on the object or person that is concerned by the dat...

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

Government, E-Government and Modernity 'The times they are a-changin'; and even the changes are a-changin

E-government is far too often taken to mean ‘government business as usual’ plus the internet. This paper puts forward the basis for an alternative orientation, locating e-government against a background of profound social changes.

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986).