The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

Our group has created a dynamically translating VLIW processor that uses firmware for instruction scheduling. The processor executes MIPS instructions by dynamically translating them into VLIW, and then executing the translated code. We have also implemented a combined toolchain that compiles C to binary for our VHDL processor. The motivation behind the project was to gain practice writing an a...

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We report on an experiment to test the efficacy of ‘controlled language’ authoring of technical documents in Japanese, with respect both to the readability of the Japanese source and the quality of the English machine-translated output. Using four MT systems, we tested two sets of writing rules designed for two document types written by authors with contrasting professional profiles. We elicite...

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...