Time to stop relying on things past

Margaret McCartney: Stop relying on charity.

In the past week three young people have come to my door, with lanyards and branded T shirts, asking me to pledge regular donations to charity. Each represented a big, national, medical charity, the kinds withmarketingmanagers and campaign teams. I said no to each one, which prompted two of them to enter into sales pitches about how helping to set up a direct debit would “just take a minute.” B...

Analyzing Stop Time Phase Leading to Congestion Based on Drivers’ Behavior Patterns

Traffic oscillation, stop and go traffic, is created by different reasons such as: sudden speed drop of leader vehicle. Stop and go traffic commonly is observed in congested freeways results in traffic oscillation. Many theories had been presented to define congestion traffic based on laws of physics such as: thermodynamics and fluid. But, these theories could not explain the complexity of driv...

Remembrance of things past

Darwin's autobiography was never meant quite as such: he wanted to leave some thoughts for his children and grandchildren about his views on his life and how he worked. The first edition did not appear until forty years after his death and was the work of his son, Francis, who edited and compiled the material left to him and his siblings. Darwin claims he was prompted to pen some thoughts becau...

Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of things past

Among the most influential books in the field of behavioral ecology, An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology certainly stands out to the extent that it has been called ‘a classic textbook’. Arguably, many students in biology have been primed for the fields of animal behavior, sociobiology, or ethoecology by this book; in fact, one of them, Stu West, joined the established author-duo John Krebs a...