Immunization against common bacterial and viral diseases has helped prevent millions of deaths worldwide. More recently, the concept of vaccination has been developed into a potentially novel strategy to treat and prevent cancer formation, progression, and spread. Over the past few years, a handful of anti-cancer vaccines have been licensed and approved for use in clinical practice, thus provid...

Smte-oi-rbe-art ítem response theo,y (IRT) models use logistie functions exclusivcly as their ítem response functions (IREs). Logistie funcííons mee Ihe reqrtírements thai iheir range is che unit iníerval ami íhat they are monotonically increasing. bur they upase a parameter ipace whose dimensions can only be assigned a meíaphoñcal interpretation in the context of cesting. Applications of 1RT m...

In order to make it possible for us to easily create a virtual world simply by using our imagination with building blocks and to take photographs of ourselves traveling in the wonder space with a beautiful composition, we have developed a system called “Cypher (Cyber Photographer in Wonder Space)”. With this system, users can blend the real world with a virtual world by using their aesthetic se...

This book considers one of the less obvious (but arguably more important) passions – wonder – and the ways in which that emotion intersected with skepticism in the Middle Ages. Through an in-depth analysis of medieval responses to marvels, it thus builds upon earlier studies of wonder, most notably Caroline Walker Bynum’s seminal article on the topic, and a rich tradition of doubt scholarship.(...