I follow with great interest the heated legal, ethical, and purely medical controversies surrounding the therapeutic value of fermented Chinese red yeast rice in cardiovascular diseases. Some of the debated issues are addressed by the authors of a recent publication in the Journal (1). The study by Heber et al (1) indicates that very short-term supplementation of patients with hyperlipidemia wi...

According to Webster’s Dictionary [1], a ‘‘blip’’ is a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption. One of the earliest uses of this term in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) literature was by Wodarz and Nowak [2] in their conceptual HIV dynamics model that involved ‘‘the occurrence of ‘blips’ of such [CXCR4-tropic HIV] mutants, which rapidly go extinct.’’ Use of the term in the context...

This year marks the 60th anniver­ sary of the publication of Watson and Crick’s paper on the structure of DNA, which is held by most people to represent the birth of molecular biology. Although such landmarks are in many ways spurious, 60 years is the upper limit of a working lifetime for most people, so perhaps it’s a good moment to look back at what molecular biologists have achieved and wher...

rural community and their services, productive activities, because of strong relation with environment, from long bygone were exposed to disastrous natural power. therefore residents of every region by experiment, apply the approaches and measurement to contrast with these events and reduce the damage of them in their community. public attention focused on physical factor and human making envir...

Ever since its foundation in 1540, the Society of Jesus had one mission—to restore order where Luther, Calvin and other instigators Reformation brought chaos. To stop hemorrhage believers, Jesuits needed to form a united front. No signs internal disagreement could be shown outside world, lest congregation lose credibility. But 1570s two prominent Jesuits, Cristophorus Clavius Benito Perera, eng...

Shortly before his retirement, Connecticut State Librarian Kendall F. Wiggin wrote, “You cannot learn from the past if you see past.”1 As of December 2020, Archives has embarked on a major project to make more visible. Thanks $100,000 grant National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC), funding arm Archives, we have begun uncover hidden resources in New Haven County Court re...

Investigation and analysis of the history of the concepts employed in contemporary philosophy of mind could significantly change the contemporary debate about the explainability of consciousness. Philosophical investigation of the history of the concept of qualia and the concept of scientific explanation most often presupposed in contemporary discussions of consciousness reveals the origin of b...

This article describes the construction of a corpus of spoken French with a time depth of a century and a half, the Récits du français québécois d’autrefois (RFQ). The folktales, local legends, and interviews constituting the RFQ were produced by speakers born between 1846 and 1895. They spoke the French of 19th-century rural Québec, a variety shown to be replete with the vernacular structures ...

The present text is concerned with figures of unusual gender in two poetic texts by Georg Trakl, namely ‘Traum und Umnachtung’ and ‘Ruh Schweigen’, each which features the same violation German grammar at a crucial point. first starts ends scene boy recognising his sister's image mirror, will be read as specular identification that transgresses norms assignment. This transgression further illum...

NOT LONG AFTER his arrival in Chile from Nicaragua 1886, Rubén Darío published an article the newspaper El mercurio, which he lamented present state of arts. Speaking Chilean poets particular, complains: “Casi todos permanecen silenciosos; casi han olvidado el amable comercio de las Gracias. Quién con la cartera del diplomático no cura si Fama le ha encumbrado a categoría primer poeta filosófic...