Homegrown computer roots out phylogenetic networks

The phylogenetic roots of cognitive dissonance.

We presented 7 Old World monkeys (Japanese macaques [Macaca fuscata], gray-cheeked mangabey [Lophocebus albigena], rhesus macaques [Macaca mulatta], bonnet macaque [Macaca radiate], and olive baboon [Papio anubis]), 3 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), 6 members of the parrot (Psittacinae) family, and 4 American black bears (Ursus americanus) with a cognitive dissonance paradigm modeled after Egan,...

Unearthing the Phylogenetic Roots of Sleep

Why we sleep remains one of the enduring unanswered questions in biology. At its core, sleep can be defined behaviorally as a homeostatically regulated state of reduced movement and sensory responsiveness. The cornerstone of sleep studies in terrestrial mammals, including humans, has been the measurement of coordinated changes in brain activity during sleep measured using the electroencephalogr...

Biomolecular computer: roots and promises.

There are two basic issues inherent in contemporary molecular and biomolecular computing and urgent for its future development. They are: (i) fundamentals, that is general principles, starting points and correlation's between different approaches to design biomolecular information processing devices, (ii) working criteria, that is goals and principles for the choice of the device designing char...

Phylogenetic Networks

Homegrown Islam in the USA

Muslims in America are an ethnically diverse group, coming from more than sixty nations and representing very different racial, linguistic, tribal, educational, and cultural backgrounds. Yvonne Haddad groups them into three categories: immigrants, converts, and sojourners (Conser, 218-219). This article will focus on those who have converted to Islam in America, with particular attention to the...