BACKGROUND International variation in homicide rates may be attributable to cultural differences in acceptance of moral justifications for killing. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between measures of attitudes towards the justification of killing and homicide rates in diverse international populations. METHODS Four studies assessed variations in acceptance of killing...

We are using the term ‘microtonal tuning’ here to mean simply any tuning with more than twelve notes per octave, though we realise that the term is sometimes defined more broadly. For example, the definition could be so broad as to include all tunings other than the one based on the ubiquitous Western tempered scale with twelve equally-spaced steps per octave (hereinafter abbreviated as 12-ET)....

We demonstrate efficient multimode (MM) to single-mode (SM) conversion in a 19-port photonic lantern with a 50 μm core MM delivery fiber. The photonic lantern can be used within the field of astrophotonics for coupling MM starlight to an ensemble of SM fibers in order to perform fiber-Bragg-grating-based spectral filtering. An MM delivery fiber spliced to the photonic lantern offers the advanta...

Bwmm 277 tissue does not normally occur (Davis et al., 1955). This stipulation is necessary, since benign tumours have a multifocal origin in approximately 10% of cases, but in such cases tumour cells are confined to tissues which normally contain chromaffin elements. Case 1 was regarded as malignant because phaeo-chromocytoma cells were found in a lymph node, a site which would not normally co...

In programming by example (PBE; also sometimes called programming by demonstration) systems, the system records actions performed by a user in the interface and produces a generalized program that can be used later in analogous examples. A key issue is how to describe the actions and objects selected by the user, which determines what kind of generalizations will be possible. When the user sele...

A.N., a boy and the only child, was stated to have been a fortnight premature and to have weighed 5j lb. at birth. Breast fed for one month, he was then given bottle feeds as his mother had insufficient milk. On this he thrived, and subsequent progress was normal with no history of any illness until his last. At 16 months he weighed 21 lb., and at 18 months he had 12 teeth and could walk and sp...