Vivisection: A Sonnet

Combinatorics of the Sonnet

Using a definition of a sonnet, the number of basic rhyming schemes is enumerated. This is then used to discuss the 86 sonnets which appear in John Clare’s The Rural Muse.

Religion and Anti-Vivisection †

In reading the literature of English physiology I have been struck by the continual recurrence of the word, "sacrifice." When a French or German physiologist has destroyed an animal, he says simply that he has killed it, whereas his English or American counterpart almost always says that he has "sacrificed" the animal. No doubt it will be objected that this is a mere convention, one beginning a...

Vivisection in historical perspective

Burnham, who did much in the 1960s to explore the relation between the new psychologies and the ideals of social management gaining prominence in the "Progressive Era". Essays included here discuss the development of "expert" measurement techniques for human attributes from Cattell's anthropometric studies in the 1890s, through Goddard's (1910) use of Binet's work to classify the feeble-minded,...

Herophilus and vivisection: a re-appraisal

ViviSection: Skeleton-based Volume Editing

Volume segmentation is important in many applications, particularly in the medical domain. Most segmentation techniques, however, work fully automatically only in very restricted scenarios and cumbersome manual editing of the results is a common task. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for the editing of segmentation results. Our method exploits structural features of the segmented ob...