Abstract The ‘pneumatic episodes’ of Long’s essay survey ancient Greek ideas about breath ( pneuma ) and respiration, starting from Homer’s epic poetry concluding with Galen’s medical the uses breathing, pathologies breathlessness. These authors explored vital connections between breath, heart, mind, brain. They also considered how functions to control body’s temperature, animal life begins why...

Endocytosis of AMPA receptors and other postsynaptic cargo occurs at endocytic zones (EZs), stably positioned sites of clathrin adjacent to the postsynaptic density (PSD). The tight localization of postsynaptic endocytosis is thought to control spine composition and regulate synaptic transmission. However, the mechanisms that situate the EZ near the PSD and the role of spine endocytosis in syna...

The connection between first-order calculi and higher-order calculi have been examined in many setting within the area of process calculi. In this paper we examine two existing encodings of the π-calculus in higherorder calculi: the encoding in HOπ-calculus by Sangiorgi and Walker and the encoding in Plain CHOCS by Thomsen. We propose a new encoding of the synchronous π-calculus in the calculus...

Few will doubt that tracing Homer (and Homeric epos) on subsequent classical authors, in all its varied manifestations, has proved to be an enlightening critical enterprise. Indeed, it has become nearly impossible to consider the poetry of the so-called archaic lyric period without acknowledging at some level its relation to Homer and the epic tradition. It is a pity, therefore, that in this re...