Festschrift: how do we value artefacts in museum research?

Museums of science and technology are well known for their efforts in collecting, preserving and exhibiting material 8.34 expressions of techno-scientific cultures.Often, however, they have been struggling with their task in advancing historical knowledge production based on object-oriented research.This paper explores the eminent role of Robert Bu

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GIANT FIBROADENOMA; CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Introduction For a variety of reasons, giant breast tumors continue to pose a challenge in diagnosis and management.These tumors are poorly understood because of their rarity and unpredictable behavior.Their rapid growth, associated with skin congestion and ulceration, and tendency to recur, gives rise to a suspicion of malignancy1,2.In addition, o

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Extreme events: dynamics, statistics and prediction

We review work on extreme events, their causes and consequences, by a group of European and American researchers involved in a three-year project Fuel Filters on these topics.The review covers theoretical aspects of time series analysis and of extreme value theory, as well as of the deterministic modeling of extreme events, via continuous and discr

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