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Valentina Greco: Got hair?

I n mammalian hair follicles, follicu-lar tissues and new hairs are generated during a cyclical growth cycle. The growth phase is followed by a period of degeneration and then by entry into a resting state that terminates with a new round of growth. The transitions between different stages of the cycle are triggered by interactions of hair follicle stem cells with underlying mesenchymal cells, ...

Greco-Roman ethics and the naturalistic fantasy.

To modern scholars, the naturalistic fallacy looks out of place in Greco-Roman antiquity owing to the robust associations between nature, especially human nature, and moral norms. Yet nature was understood by ancient authors not only as a norm but also as a form of necessity. The Greco-Roman philosophical schools grappled with how to reconcile the idea that human nature is given with the idea t...

Numerical Enumeration of Greco-Latin Prime Order Associative Magic Squares

A magic square of order n consists of the numbers 1 to n placed such that the sum of each row, column and principal diagonal equals the magic sum n(n +1)/2. In addition, an odd ordered magic square is associative or self-complementary if diagonally opposite elements have the same sum (n +1)/2. The magic square is said to be regular Greco-Latin if it can be decomposed as a sum of a pair of Latin...

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-roman World

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarize the current state of scholarship in their specialized fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Ro...

The problem of female infanticide in the Greco-Roman world.