Together through history

Come Together, Right Now: Dynamic Overwriting of an Object's History through Common Fate

The objects around us constantly move and interact, and the perceptual system needs to monitor on-line these interactions and to update the object's status accordingly. Gestalt grouping principles, such as proximity and common fate, play a fundamental role in how we perceive and group these objects. Here, we investigated situations in which the initial object representation as a separate item w...

Bringing Europe together through primary care.

At the end of August 2015, the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) held its 10th conference in Amsterdam. This represented a significant moment in the history of the EFPC and for Primary Health Care Research and Development (PHCRD). The conference brought together primary care researchers, practitioners and decision makers from across all parts of Europe as well as participants from the Unit...

Integrity through a Comparative Glimpse at Contemporary History

This paper tries to study the role of political leadership and how it influenced victories and failures during history. Therefore, in a journey through fluctuating Iranian history, four prominent and influential wars of past two centuries – initially Iran-Russia war and finally Iran-Iraq war- have been studied. While comparing Iran's political leadership in these wars and their consequences, th...

Understanding life together: A brief history of collaboration in biology

The history of science shows a shift from single-investigator 'little science' to increasingly large, expensive, multinational, interdisciplinary and interdependent 'big science'. In physics and allied fields this shift has been well documented, but the rise of collaboration in the life sciences and its effect on scientific work and knowledge has received little attention. Research in biology e...

Bipolar disorders through history