Referential communication is central to social and collective behaviour, for example honey bees communicating nectar locations each other or co-workers gossiping about a colleague. Since such behaviour typically considered be ‘representation hungry’, it often assumed require the possession of complex cognitive machinery capable manipulating symbolic representations world. However, series simula...

This paper addresses the concept of koinōnia discussed in Plato’s Republic. It focuses on specific ways term enters discussion about social organisation within guardian class, such as proposal for abolishing a nuclear family favour community wives and children. The aims to reveal psychological basis connecting socio-economic proposals his principal ethical political concerns. examines (i) argum...

Water is an essential element of life. The government of Ethiopia in collaboration with development allies’ attempts to increase pure water supply. Even though the coverage boosted dramatically still there is critical challenges in maximizing equipment’s reliability, improving service quality, maximizing capacity utilization, minimizing life cycle costs of water production mach...

The TOB or SAM complex is responsible for assembling several proteins into the mitochondrial outer membrane, including all β-barrel proteins. We have identified several forms of the complex in Neurospora crassa. One form contains Tob55, Tob38, and Tob37; another contains these three subunits plus the Mdm10 protein; while additional complexes contain only Tob55. As previously shown for Tob55, bo...

In Nepal, spirit possession is a common phenomenon occurring both in individuals and in groups. To identify the cultural contexts and psychosocial correlates of spirit possession, we conducted a mixed-method study in a village in central Nepal experiencing a cluster of spirit possession events. The study was carried out in three stages: (1) a pilot study consisting of informal interviews with p...