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Japanese Reverse Compasses: Grounding Cognition in History and Society
ArgumentAn unusual compass, on which east and west are reversed, provides insight into the dynamics guiding our understanding of artifacts. By examining how such compasses were used in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), the ... -
Jumping the Line, Charitably: Analysis and Remedy of Donor-Priority Rule
The ongoing shortage of organs for transplantation has generated an expanding literature on efficient and equitable allocation of the donated cadaveric organs. By contrast, organ donation has been little explored. In this ... -
Progressive collapse triggered by fire induced column loss: Detrimental effect of thermal forces
In progressive collapse analysis, event-independent column loss is commonly used as a design scenario. Yet this scenario does not account for the fire-induced thermal forces that develop in case of a fire. The thermal ... -
The RMap Project
The goal of the RMap Project is to create a prototype service that can capture and preserve maps of relationships amongst the increasingly distributed components (article, data, software, workflow objects, multimedia, etc.) ...