Book Review: Celebrating Life Customs around the World: From Baby Showers to Funerals

From Lisbon to the World...

Book Review: “Introduction to Artificial Life”

Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...

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Medical News A mistaken interpretation of data relating alcohol to mortality Epidemiology of alcoholic liver disease in Denmark 2006–2011: A population-based study WineHealth 2015 The pattern of alcohol consumption and risk of cirrhosis Ethnic differences in presentation and severity of alcoholic liver disease Worsening of health and a cessation or reduction in alcohol consumption to special oc...

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Mysterious disease devastates pacific Coast of Central America A mysterious epidemic has killed more than 24 000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and stricken thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen almost anywhere else. Some suggest that agricultural chemicals are the cause, but others contend that the grueling nature of the work and dehydration are to bla...

Review Review of the World Class Parasites Book Series

1. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2. Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, USA. 3. Department of Microbiology/Immunology, University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, USA 4. Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Parana, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil 5. Instituto de Biofisica Car...