The paper describes the results of a radiographic evaluation of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period of Copan, Honduras; K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’, founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan; and the principal individual recovered from the Motmot tomb. There were two primary goals: (1) the description of previously undocumented pathological processes; and (2) the evaluation of ind...

in the third century, the political multiplicity of iran was influential on various thoughts and expansion of the opposite religious interactions. benefiting from the attention towards the masses of people and equalizing among them, murjae and hanafiae could affect iran and missionaries deeply. in the middle of the third century, with the shafei’s influence in the fascinating cities of ray, ne...

Nearly all science and engineering fields use search algorithms, which automatically explore a search space to find high-performing solutions: chemists search through the space of molecules to discover new drugs; engineers search for stronger, cheaper, safer designs, scientists search for models that best explain data, etc. The goal of search algorithms has traditionally been to return the sing...

It is now widely recognized that medical science was dramatically transformed from the mid-eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, while, at the same time, the organized medical profession came increasingly to monopolize health care in the western world. Less well known is the parallel shift, during this same period, of institutionalpower within medicine. At the beginning of the eighteenth...