"But Who Could Have Known? (Grief, Gratitude)"

Could René Descartes Have Known This?

Below we discuss the partition of the space of real univariate polynomials according to the number of positive and negative roots and signs of the coefficients. We present several series of non-realizable combinations of signs together with the numbers of positive and negative roots. We provide a detailed information about possible non-realizable combinations up to degree 8 as well as a general...

Depressive symptomatology and grief in Spanish women who have suffered a perinatal loss.

BACKGROUND Perinatal grief differs from other types of mourning. Two goals were set: to describe the progression of the process of grief and the symptoms of depression throughout the year following perinatal loss, and to study its association with socio-economic and obstetric factors. METHOD The study involved the participation of 70 women who had suffered a medical termination of pregnancy o...

Could Morality Have

Comparison of emotional intelligence and adaptability, in students who have kindergarten experienced and those who have not experienced

Purpose: The purpose of current study is to compare the emotional intelligence and adaptation of pre-school students who have experienced kindergarten with those who have not experienced it. The study population includes all junior high school students of Robat Karim, Tehran. The present study sample was stratified random sampling method and was randomized equally disproportionate between  stud...

Could plants have cognitive abilities?

Vegetation is traditionally regarded as passive, doing nothing but what is essential to grow and survive. Evidence is accumulating, however, in support of formerly esoteric notions that plants can communicate, remember, even count--features that one would call cognitive if they were observed in animals. Michael Gross reports.