Scientific materialism is the largely unquestioned basis for modern science's understanding of life. It also holds enormous sway beyond science and thus has increasingly marginalized religious perspectives. Yet it is easy to find behavioral phenomena from the accepted literature that seriously challenge materialism. A number of these phenomena are very suggestive of reincarnation. The larger te...

In this paper, we focus on the facility location games with the property of dual preference. Dual preference property indicates that both two preferences of agents, staying close to and staying away from the facility(s), exist in the facility location game. We will explore two types of facility location games with this property, the dual character facility location game and the two-oppositefaci...

Plants are sessile, so have evolved sensitive ways to detect attacking herbivores and sophisticated strategies to effectively defend themselves. Insect herbivory induces synthesis of the phytohormone jasmonic acid which activates downstream metabolic pathways for various chemical defences such as toxins and digestion inhibitors. Insects are also sophisticated animals, and many have coevolved ph...

Background: On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency. With nearly 25000 fresh cases registered daily, tally in India rose to 13 lakh till mid of July according Ministry and Family Welfare. Understanding inclination doctors work is essential for betterment care services. Objective were assess willingness Doctors determine factors aff...

objective: standardization of hospital emergency units is a major goal in developed countries to decrease the duration of patients stay in these units. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of long-term staying in an emergency ward. methods: in the present 2-month cross-sectional study, patients referring to the emergency ward of imam hossein hospital were assessed. the pa...

AIM To investigate whether different sequences of 'change talk' utterances within a brief motivational intervention (BMI) are associated with drinking outcomes. DESIGN Speech content analysis of recorded BMI. SETTING BMI delivered in an emergency department for at-risk drinking. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-seven subjects who received a BMI. MEASUREMENTS Ninety-seven BMI were coded in duplicate ...

This paper argues for an approach within the medical humanities that draws on the theoretical legacy of cultural materialism as a framework for reading cultural practices and their relationship to the social and economic order. It revisits the origins and development of cultural materialism in cultural studies and literary studies between the 1970s and 1990s and considers how, with adaptation, ...