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New light on the patria of Arnald of Villanova : the case for Villanova de Jiloca near Daroca
A Fundamental Test of the Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter may consist of weakly interacting elementary particles or of
macroscopic compact objects. We show that the statistics of the gravitational
lensing of high redshift supernovae strongly discriminate between these two
classes of dark matter candidates. We develop a method of calculating the
magnification distribution of supernovae, which can be interpreted in terms of
the properties of the lensing objects. With simulated data we show that >~ 50
well measured type Ia supernovae (\Delta m ~ 0.2 mag) at redshifts ~1 can
clearly distinguish macroscopic from microscopic dark matter if \Omega_o
\simgt 0.2 and all dark matter is in one form or the other.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, AASTeX, replaced to conform to the version to be
published in ApJL. It is now more clearly written and addresses some possible
systematic uncertaintie
Conceptual analyses of extensible booms to support a solar sail
Extensible booms which could function as the diagonal spars and central mast of an 800 meter square, non-rotating Solar Sailing Vehicle were conceptually designed and analyzed. The boom design concept that was investigated is an extensible lattice boom which is stowed and deployed by elastically coiling and uncoiling its continuous longerons. The seven different free-span lengths in each spar which would minimize the total weights of the spars and mast were determined. Boom weights were calculated by using a semi-empirical formulation which related the overall weight of a boom to the weight of its longerons
A note on two sources of bias in estimating income elasticities from cross-section data on households producing at least partly for subsistence
Elimination of management bias from production functions fitted to cross-section data: a model and an application to African agriculture
Trotula, women's problems, and the professionalization of medicine in the Middle Ages
The professionalization of medicine in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries led to an exclusion of women practitioners from the best paid
and most respected medical positions. Male doctors controlled the
teaching and theory of women's medicine, and their gynecological
literature incorporated male experience, understanding and learning.
The treatises attributed to Trotula, which survive in nearly 100
manuscripts, were the most popular texts used by academic physicians in
the later Middle Ages.
Although Georg Kraut's Strassburg edition of 1544 treats the
treatises of "Trotula" as a single, unified work, three separate texts
circulated in the Middle Ages, and on stylistic and other grounds it is
likely that each was written by a different author. Reasonably solid
evidence demonstrates the existence of a woman physician at Salerno
named Trota or Trotula, but she was not a magistra (as is often
asserted), and it seems that she did not write even one of the three
texts attributed to her. Instead, she produced a Practica from which
extracts appear in a Practica secundum Trotam, which survives as a
single mansucript in Madrid, and in De aegritudinum curatione in the
Wrociaw (Breslau) Codex Salernitanus.
This paper is to be published by the Bulletin of the History of
Medicine in 1985
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