SYMPTOMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

The Analysis and Interpretation of Symptoms

Ergotism in Norway. Part 2: The symptoms and their interpretation from the eighteenth century onwards.

Ergotism, the disease caused by consuming Claviceps purpurea, a highly poisonous, grain-infecting fungus, occurred at various places scattered throughout Norway during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By focusing on these cases we chart the changing interpretations of the peculiar disease, frequently understood within a religious context or considered as a supernatural (e.g. ghostly) ex...

Wave Functions and Their Interpretation

In previous activities you saw that experimental evidence supports the theory that matter, such as electrons and subatomic particles, exhibit wave behavior. Wave behavior is utilized by the electron microscope, which enables us to look at nanometer-sized details in objects. we will see that this wave behavior is critical to understanding a number of phenomena, including energy in atoms and soli...

Atypical Symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome and Their Predictors

A closer look at rock physics models and their assisted interpretation in seismic exploration

Subsurface rocks and their fluid content along with their architecture affect reflected seismic waves through variations in their travel time, reflection amplitude, and phase within the field of exploration seismology. The combined effects of these factors make subsurface interpretation by using reflection waves very difficult. Therefore, assistance from other subsurface disciplines is needed i...