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The Latin poet Titus Lucretius Caro (I century B.C.), speaking of the origins of music in his work De rerum natura, expresses an interesting opinion on the scientific and technological progress that man has attained over the course of time.

backgrounds in history and literature with their scientific

This paper depicts the use of computers in the urban studies, and provides a digital way of understanding historical buildings and the relations with the city. ADiscovery of Historical TainanB is a joint project among historians and Ž . computer-aided design CAD researchers to preserve historical evidences of the central city of Tainan by using computer visual simulation. The importance of hist...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...

The origin of the population health approach is an historic debate over the relationship between economic growth and human health. In Britain and France, the Industrial Revolution disrupted population health and stimulated pioneering epidemiological studies, informing the early preventive public health movement. A century-long process of political adjustment between the forces of liberal democr...

for their answers to various questions which I stumbled upon along the way. I would like to thank Professors Arnold Ross and Daniel Shapiro, who instilled in me a love for number theory. Furthermore, I am very grateful to my parents who not only taught me for twelve years, but also were kind enough to help me with editing this thesis. I would like to thank Altavista whose Babel Fish program let...

Recently, XML is widely used as the de facto standard for data representation and exchanging in Internet. In 2006, office application groups such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft office both adopted XML as the main data storage format. Historical XML documents often have tiny differences between versions, but are stored individual independent space, so the abilities for efficient storing histori...