*Correspondence: Kenneth P. Kodama, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 1 West Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, USA e-mail: [email protected] The ∼201 Ma paleopole for North America (NA) at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (TJB) is observed in two widely different locations; one paleopole is determined from the Mesozoic rift basins in eastern NA and the other from the Colo...

The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world. Here Walter Wink describes just how pervasive this myth still is in the mores of Wester...

Three new Nemesia Audouin 1826 species from northern and central Italy are named. They share a combination of sexual characters, not found in other described species. A new species-complex within Nemesia is here referred to as the apenninica group. Within the apenninica group, N. apenninica n. sp., N. hastensis n. sp., and N. pedemontana n. sp. differ in the morphology of the male palpal organ ...

Stored lipids in marine planktonic larvae play an important role in buoyancy and as an energy source and thus are a key to understanding the dispersal and settlement potential of larvae. However, little is known about lipid content and composition in different coral species or their temporal changes during larval dispersal. We examined the lipid content and composition of eggs and planula larva...

Spin-transfer torque (STT) switching demonstrated in submicron sized magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has stimulated considerable interest for developments of STT switched magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM). Remarkable progress in STT switching with MgO MTJs and increasing interest in STTMRAM in semiconductor industry have been witnessed in recent years. This paper will present a review o...

* This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(2010-0021897). Abstract As the power dissipation has become one of the critical design challenges in a sensor network environment, nonvolatile memories such as STT-MRAM and flash memory will be used in the next generat...