Noncyclic populations of microtine rodents may be limited within a relatively constant range of densities by generalist predators with a prey base sufficiently diverse to sustain them when rodents are scarce (generalist predator hypothesis). Collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx kilangmiutak) at Pearce Point, Northwest Territories, Canada, are noncyclic and limited to fairly constant low densities in ...

This essay aims to bring politics closer to home in two main ways. First, we address geographical and disciplinary spaces and identities in order to propose a fruitful ‘breeding ground’ for critical management education (CME) in the US context: organizational and instructional communication studies. Second, we engage recent calls for selfrefl exivity among CME scholars, re-directing the critica...

The guarded fragment is a fragment of first-order logic that has been introduced for two main reasons: First, to explain the good computational and logical behavior of propositional modal logics. Second, to serve as a breeding ground for well-behaved process logics. In this paper we give resolution-based decision procedures for the guarded fragment and for the loosely guarded fragment (sometime...

It is no secret that law school is a breeding ground for depression, anxiety, and other stress-related illnesses.1 The literature is replete with alarming facts concerning the negative emotional and physical reactions many students experience as they pursue a law degree.2 One noted author reports that “up to 40 percent of law students may experience depression or other symptoms as a result of t...

Darwin famously built the ground-breaking argument of On the Origin of Species out of an analogy between artificial selection ('breeding') and what he called 'nature's power of selection'--or, more famously, 'natural selection'. For years, historians of science have debated the origins of this analogy and philosophers of science have disputed exactly how well it works. But is Darwin's argument ...

Americans can take some pride in the fact that attaining what the medical profession calls "cultural competency" is a goal of most health care institutions. However, achieving this goal in today's health care environment, filled with diverse patient and provider populations, is no easy task. In addition to the complications imposed by the proliferation of managed health care, American hospitals...

Ethical tenets and political systems are one of the most controversial terminologiesin philosophy ofethics and politicalthought.That is why thinkers based upon theirintellectual  standpoint  have  reached  different  inferences  and  definitions  andelaborated  various  aspects  of  it  accordingly.Shariatisimilar  to  his  precedingthinkersmade the creation of ethicalpolitical system one of hi...