'Prentice Pillars: The Architect and His Pupil.

04 Prentice

Obesity plays a central role in the development of the thrifty phenotype. The metabolic disturbances of the cardiovascular metabolic syndrome, frequently ascribed to the thrifty phenotype, are rare in the absence of obesity and their expression is generally proportional to the size of the excess fat mass. Thus obesity interacts with early-life programming in the establishment of disease. Surpri...

Shedding New Light on the 18th Dynasty Mummies of the Royal Architect Kha and His Spouse Merit

The mummies of Kha and his wife Merit were found intact in an undisturbed tomb in western Thebes near the ancient workers' village of Deir el-Medina. Previous MDCT (this abbreviation needs spelling out) investigations showed that the bodies of Kha and Merit did not undergo classical royal 18th Dynasty artificial mummification, which included removal of the internal organs. It was, therefore, co...

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...

Rediscovering the pillars.

The psychiatrist as archaeologist and architect

A colleague and I recently proposed a model to guide the description and reform of mental health services and to clarify service evaluation (Tansella & Thornicroft, 1998). The model, which we call the ‘mental health matrix’, consists of two dimensions, one temporal and one geographical. The temporal dimension comprises three phases: input (phase A), process (phase B) and outcome (phase C). The ...