These drawings represent everyday experiences of an artist who has been living with rheumatoid arthritis since her teenage years. Over the course of 20 years, the disease has damaged a series of joints in her body. Pain and inflammation accompany the most mundane of her movements and gestures. Fatigue and side effects of medications are routine parts of life. None of her impairments are publicl...

Strange attractors – emerging out of the chaotic dynamics of the thoughts and feelings constantly swarming in the mental space of each individual – encapsulate topologies of meaning-making units and offer a key to a unified semiotic and cognitive understanding of meaning. Being dynamic constructs, Strange Attractors of Meaning have both spatial and temporal characteristics. The spatial characte...

Time Acknowledgments This work was funded in part by NSF grants IIS-1111534 and IIS-1149393, by support from the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing, and by support from Amazon Web Services in Education. References [1] Bryan Klingner, David Martin, James Roseborough. “Street View Motion-from Structure-from-Motion”. ICCV 2013. [2] Grant Schindler and Frank Dellaert. “Probabi...

F. W., a boy of 8 years of age; there was some evidence of phthisis in the family history. His mother attributed the illness to a fright twelve months ago, when the boy became afraid to go to bed by himself. After a short time he began to vomit constantly every morning, the vomit consisting of altered food. He attended for a few. weeks as an out-patient, and then was admitted into the Hospital,...

Senescence, a deteriorative process that increases the probability of death of an organism with increasing chronological age, has been found in all metazoans where careful studies have been carried out. There has been much controversy, however, about the potential immortality of hydra, a solitary freshwater member of the phylum Cnidaria, one of the earliest diverging metazoan groups. Researcher...

One of the most important social problems that many of the developed countries face is the constant rise of the percentage of the elderly population values. A major health issue affecting this part of the population is the appearance of dementia of the Alzheimers type (AD) which is the most common case of dementia, affecting around 50 million people worldwide. In addition, the frequency of the ...