HUNTED HERETIC; THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS 15111553. By Roland H. Bainton. Boston, Beacon Press, 1953. xii, 270 pp. $3.75. The Reverend Roland H. Bainton is the distinguished Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University. For over twenty-five years Mr. Bainton has been studying about and publishing books on the four principal heretics of the Reformation who, as...

Although the field of travel medicine is relatively young, the number of textbooks about the field is growing. This international trio of authors from Switzerland, the United States, and Singapore, recently published the second edition of their textbook, which adds new chapters and updates epidemiologic information. Because of the complexity of travel medicine, good resources for clinicians and...

Today most of the information we produce is stored digitally. We are slowly forced to leave behind us thinking about information as something stored in physical containers as books, drawings etc. We make i t possible to dynamically create logical containers of information on the fly. The paper focuses on how we in the future can aggregate, classify and generalize digitally stored information in...

Given arbitrary pictures, we explore the possibility of using new techniques from computer vision and artificial intelligence to create customized visual games on-the-fly. This includes coloring books, link-the-dot and spot-the-difference popular games. The feasibility of these systems is discussed and we describe prototype implementation that work well in practice in an automatic or semi-autom...

Published in: D. Salvatore, J. Damijan and M.Svetlicic (editors): Small Countries in a Global Economy. Palgrave/Macmillan, New York, ISBN 0333789849, chapter 4, 2001, p. 133-154. An updated and enlarged version of this paper can be downloaded from Vladimir Benacek’s website under the title: Economics of Alliances and (Dis)Integration: An Alternative Interpretation of Transition Illustrated on C...

Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University and Extempo Systems Inc. In contemplating the possibility of interactive story systems, I begin with two premises, an artistic premise and a technical premise. My artistic premise is that we should strive for an interactive story experience that achieves for the participant the same artistic goals achieved by the great works of fiction in the traditional ...

intellectual casualty of the 2007–2008 1⁄2nancial crisis is the ef1⁄2cient market theory (emt). Newspapers and talk shows have analyzed the theory’s apparent demise; new books with titles like How Markets Fail, The Myth of the Rational Market, and A Failure of Capitalism abound. Yet, in academia, the emt has been challenged since the 1987 stock market crash, and the theoretical and empirical sh...

abstract from ancient time, iranians were interested in searching in the realm of arabic language and culture. it happens because of the necessities and religious background of arabic language, to some extent is due to iranian trend toward getting new knowledge, also it relates to the discussion of aesthetics and art. therefore, gradually we have observed some works in these domains and as a re...

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...