Armed conflicts frequently result in the damage or destruction of archaeological heritage. The occupation by ISIS parts Iraq and Syria is no exception. Here, authors present results work focused on Nineveh, as part a wider research initiative to monitor inflicted at sites northern Iraq. Combining satellite imagery, low-level aerial photography ground-based reconnaissance, project presents condi...

This study presents a mathematical model in which a single beneficial mutation arises in a very large population that is subject to frequent deleterious mutations. The results suggest that, if the population is sexual, then the deleterious mutations will have little effect on the ultimate fate of the beneficial mutation. However, if most offspring are produced asexually, then the probability th...

People typically demand more to relinquish the goods they own than they would be willing to pay to acquire those goods if they did not already own them (the endowment effect). The standard economic explanation of this phenomenon is that people expect the pain of relinquishing a good to be greater than the pleasure of acquiring it (the loss aversion account). The standard psychological explanati...

Size, density and distribution of the brown garden snail (Cantareus aspersus) were observed relative to cover at a coastal reserve on the North Island, New Zealand. Cover variables depended on vegetation height and available debris (rubbish, wood, cow dung). Air temperature, ground temperature, and relative humidity were recorded continuously during the field survey for the various cover types....

Pp. 47?. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1897. This book is intended for the use of three classes of persons: " the present generation of physicians who prescribe travel, the travelers themselves, and the rising generation of medical students should be taught to recognize the principles of medical climatology and its proper relation to general therapeutics." The author rightly summarises much ...

Our subject is a 55-year-old man and former civil servant. He claimed to have seen someone who others could not see. believed that he an important person. had strange behavior such as separating himself from others, speaking laughing alone, collecting rubbish. Based on the assessment through observation, interviews, psychological tests, was diagnosed with schizophrenia behavioral problems colle...