Students and teachers often express a need for an introductory text of physiology, one which is more readable than longer, standard texts, yet which will at the same time guide the beginning student into more effective use of a comprehensive treatise. This need is well satisfied by publication of the third edition of Human Physiology. Written as it is by a group of distinguished teachers and sc...

Students and teachers often express a need for an introductory text of physiology, one which is more readable than longer, standard texts, yet which will at the same time guide the beginning student into more effective use of a comprehensive treatise. This need is well satisfied by publication of the third edition of Human Physiology. Written as it is by a group of distinguished teachers and sc...

developing electrical energy is one of the basic needs for development, so equipping the rural regions and villiages is one of the main responisiblities of thirdworld countries. in this study, we used economic evaluation indexes to compare electrification to baghtaj village by power grid expansion and application of solar photovoltaic systems. economic evaluation indexes suggests that in the ab...

Parsimony can be related to explanatory power, either by noting that each additional requirement for a separate origin of a feature reduces the number of observed similarities that can be explained as inheritance from a common ancestor; or else by applying Popper s formula for explanatory power together with the fact that parsimony yields maximum likelihood trees under No Common Mechanism (NCM)...

Over the last few years there seems to have been a sharp increase in the number of books that want to spread the news that economics is, or at least can be, fun. This paper sets out to explain in what senses economics is supposed to be fun. In particular, the books in what I will call the economics-made-fun genre will be compared first with papers and books written by economists with the explic...