‘Only the Dead Can Be Forgiven’: Contemporary Women Poets and Environmental Melancholia

Only Fermions Can Be Elementary

In standard Poincare and anti de Sitter SO(2,3) invariant theories, the existence of antiparticles is explained by using the fact that covariant equations have solutions with negative energies. In these theories a particle and its antiparticle are described by independent positive energy irreducible representations (IRs) of the symmetry group. Such an approach cannot be applied in de Sitter SO(...

only a nice man can be a nice physician

imam ali (peace be upon him) told that physicians must have pietism and don’t abstain from guidance, advice and diligence. islam religion recognizes medicine as an allowable and necessary profession.  prophet mohammad (pbuh) and imams (pbuh) tell that sage physician status in their science, art and tasks like jurisconsult scientist status. more than one thousand years ago, abubakr rabei ebne ah...

The dead poets society: The copyright term and the public domain

Can men and women be just friends ?

We tested evolution-based hypotheses about (1) sex differences in perceived benefits and costs of opposite-sex friendship and (2) differences in perceived benefits of same-sex friendships and opposite-sex friendships. In the Preliminary Study (N = 400), an act nomination procedure was used to identify the benefits and costs of same-sex friendships and opposite-sex friendships. In Study 1, a tot...

EBVs can only be compared from the same genetic evaluation

Genetic evaluation systems like PIGBLUP use information on the performance of pigs along with environmental and management factors to derive Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) for each animal. In contrast to the observed performance of an animal, EBVs are not expressed in absolute values but are expressed as a difference from a base value. This base often consists of the oldest animals included i...