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Einstein as icon [PDF]

open access: possibleNature, 2005
Scientific celebrity has a relativity all of its own. Some scientists are celebrated by their peers, some are treasured by their students, while others are lionized by the public at large. But very few are given the burden of being a celebrity to everyone, everywhere, all the time. Albert Einstein achieved that universality.
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Generators in Icon

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 1981
Icon is a new programming language that includes a goal-directed expression evaluation mechanism. This mechanism is based on generators--expressions that are capable of producing more than one value. If the value produced by a generator does not lead to a successful result, the generator is automatically activated for an alternate value.
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Icons in Surgery

Archives of Surgery, 1992
This company of surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, has honored me greatly, and I am grateful. In a turbulent, changing world, as physicians, you are among the most important people on earth. More important, by far, than any technologic aspect of your craft, is your character. As the pen is mightier than the sword, your beliefs and values
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Images and icons

Acta Neurochirurgica, 1994
Modern images have became essential to our daily work because they provide high quality representations which, with admittedly some difficulties and pitfalls, allow detection and diagnosis of lesions and moreover inspire and guide every step of surgery.
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Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient

New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
Dr. Abraham Verghese discusses the problem with a “chart as surrogate for the patient” approach. He believes that if one eschews the skilled and repeated examination of the real patient, then tests, consultations, and procedures that might not be needed are ordered, while simple diagnoses and new developments are overlooked.
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Icons: the making, meaning and undoing of urban icons and iconic cities

Planning Perspectives, 2016
This is a conference report on the 13th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference.
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Icon of fashion

2017
Fashion is ubiquitous in the depiction of la Parisienne and demonstrates perhaps better than any other motif the variations within the type. These variations are reflected in the eclectic array of film genres in which a fashionable Parisienne appears. The association of la Parisienne with fashion can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when the ...
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