Recent historical investigation into the rise of ‘biopolitical modernity’ in China has shed some surprising light. While it was long thought that British public health initiatives entered China via Hong Kong, the recent work of Ruth Rogaski, Philippe Chemouilli and others has established that it was actually early Japanese colonialism that played the crucial role. It was the Meiji Empire’s hygi...

In Deep Learning, a well-known approach for training a Deep Neural Network starts by training a generative Deep Belief Network model, typically using Contrastive Divergence (CD), then fine-tuning the weights using backpropagation or other discriminative techniques. However, the generative training can be time-consuming due to the slow mixing of Gibbs sampling. We investigated an alternative app...

however, necessary to point out that Guillermand's discussion of eighteenth-century military medicine is largely confined to bureaucratic developments within France, and that even here his description of the shortcomings in the care of the sick and wounded in the Seven Years War (p. 422) glosses over the abominable mismanagement that killed off forty out of every hundred soldiers admitted to ho...

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) constitute common preventable causes of morbidity and mortality. Despite the success of aggressive prophylaxis and screening, the occurrence of DVT and/or PE is not likely to be further reduced. The traditional treatment algorithm of anticoagulation therapy has been very effective. Heparin therapy has been shown to decrease the risk of fa...

Possibilities of identifying the relics and transformations depopulated settlement units in light non-invasive research methods techniques – case study Bartki village from area former East Prussia The article tackles issue identification type rural cultural landscape Warmia Masuria, which took place as a result depopulation localities due to course consequences World War II. incorporation south...

Ever since the Medieval era, Cistercian monasteries have been centres of architecture, horticulture, art and craft. Their abbeys were also distinguished by a rich theological program. Within larger monastic complexes, abbot occupied representative building, surrounded an ornamental garden. In 15th century, Abbot’s Palace was erected at Abbey in Oliwa, which had founded 1178. The abbot’s seat re...

This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures international history, as well reveal their symbolic significance. The study uses empirical data on origin, time construction and purpose monuments, memorials other places commemoration. Theoretically, it draws concepts cultural memory memory. idiographic historiographic methods ...