Preventing lawful and decent burial: resurrecting dead offences

Resurrecting dead-water phenomenon

We revisit experimental studies performed by Ekman on dead-water (Ekman, 1904) using modern techniques in order to present new insights on this peculiar phenomenon. We extend its description to more general situations such as a three-layer fluid or a linearly stratified fluid in presence of a pycnocline, showing the robustness of dead-water phenomenon. We observe large amplitude nonlinear inter...

Resurrecting the Dead (Molecules)

Biological molecules, like organisms themselves, are subject to genetic drift and may even become "extinct". Molecules that are no longer extant in living systems are of high interest for several reasons including insight into how existing life forms evolved and the possibility that they may have new and useful properties no longer available in currently functioning molecules. Predicting the se...

The 15 - years - long Emergency , the Burial - of - the Dead Conflict and the Ultimatum

The selection of the most appropriate techniques to manage efficiently (efficient management, i.e. having short-period features, should be long-lasting and steady) and adequately (adequate management implies that the parties willingly accept the decision or the agreement terms so as to strengthen the aforementioned concepts of stability and lastingness) environmental problems and – above all – ...

A Review of Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Resurrecting melancholia.

OBJECTIVE To define melancholia as a distinct mood disorder, identified by unremitting depressed mood, vegetative dysfunction, and psychomotor disturbances, verifiable by neuroendocrine tests, and treatable by electroconvulsive therapy and tricyclic antidepressants. METHOD A review of the literature of two centuries finds descriptions of severe mood disorders, either depression or mania or ci...