Towards a scientific status for micromolecular Systematics

The Health Status of Rohingya Refugees, a Systematics Review

Background and Aims: The crisis of Rohingya Muslim refugees has become one of the challenging issues of the last decade. The organized massacre of Rohingya people in Myanmar has forced them to relocate to Bangladesh, creating the worldchr('39')s largest refugee camp. The purpose of this study is to assess the health status of these refugees. Methods: The present study was conducted using a syst...

A Precision Test of Hipparcos Systematics towards the Hyades

We propose a test that can in principle detect any systematic errors in the Hipparcos parallaxes towards the Hyades cluster at the level of 0.3 mas. We show that the statistical parallax algorithm subsumes the classical moving cluster methods and provides more precise estimates of the distance and the first two moments of the velocity distribution of the Hyades cluster namely, its bulk space ve...

Mass systematics for A

Further evidence for the presence of an anomaly in binding energies for the "island of inversion" centered at Z =11, N =21 is obtained by comparison of shell-model calculations to experiment. The calculations were done with a shell-model interaction that is applicable to nuclei with active valence nucleons in both the (1s,Od) and (Of, lp) major shells. This interaction is described in detail as...

Moving towards scientific citizenship

Fertilisation and moral status: a scientific perspective.

The debate about the moral status of the embryo has gained new impetus because of the advances in reproductive technology that have made early human embryo experimentation a possibility, and because of the public concern that this arouses. Several philosophical arguments claiming that fertilisation is the event that accords moral status to the embryo were initially formulated in the context of ...