Recent Anthropological Thoughts on the Early State Formation

Ethical System in Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāī’s Thoughts on Anthropological Foundations

The ethical system of every school of thought is influenced by the way in which it conceptualizes man, identity, and rationality. The definitions of man, happiness, virtue, good, and pleasure are directed by this way of thinking. Therefore, this research aims to introduce the ethical system established by Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāī in the light of his anthropological foundations. Adopting a descriptive-...

Recent Thoughts on Abelian Points

While at MSRI in early 2006, I got asked a very interesting question by Dimitar Jetchev, a Berkeley grad student. It motivated me to study abelian points on algebraic curves (and, to a lesser extent, higher-dimensional algebraic varieties), and MSRI’s special program on Rational and Integral Points was a convenient setting for this. It did not take me long to find families of curves without abe...

10 Recent Thoughts on Archaeological Taxonomy

Recent Work on Culture and Schizophrenia: Epidemiological and Anthropological Approaches

Schizophrenia is observed worldwide in diverse cultures. However as Abed & Abbas [1] note, the supposed universality of the incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia has been seriously challenged. It is now widely accepted that the life-time prevalence and incidence of this disorder vary considerably in time and place. A lower, 50% concordance between identical twins suggests that environmental...

Recent Advances in Clinical Practice New Thoughts on Managing Obesity

Correspondence to: Professor P Kopelman, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner St, London E1 2AD, UK; [email protected] _________________________ BACKGROUND: OBESITY AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m or more, where a person’s BMI is defined as their weight in kg divided by the square of their height in metres. Overweight is...