Satan—or the Devil, as he is alternatively known—has remained among the most popular of archetypal figures of Western civilization for more than two millennia. Evidence of strong ongoing popular interest in this imaginal figure—to say nothing of Satan’s horde of demons—can easily seen in the results of even the most cursory ad-hoc research on the World Wide Web. For example, a simple recent sea...

This article is an attempt to situate imagination within consciousness complete with its own pre-cognitive, cognitive, and meta-cognitive domains. In the first sections we briefly review traditional philosophical and psychological conceptions of the imagination. The majority have viewed perception and imagination as separate faculties, performing distinct functions. A return to a phenomenologic...

We report here experiments aimed at understanding the connections between cell competition and growth in the Drosophila wing disc. The principal assay has been to generate discs containing marked cells that proliferate at different rates and to study their interactions and their contribution to the final structure. It is known that single clones of fast-dividing cells within a compartment may o...

This paper deals with a multi-agent-based interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) expert systemfor scheduling steel continuous casting. Continuous caster scheduling is a complex and extensiveprocess that needs expert staff. In this study, a distributed multi-agent-based structure is proposed as asolution. The agents used herein can cooperate with each other via various communication protocols.To facilitat...

Maize (Zéa máys) is one of the main grain crops in world, including Russia. One its most dangerous pests western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera LeConte, 1858 (western (wcr)), which an invasive species many countries. Therefore, important task researchers involved prediction phytophages and development plant protection to prevent occurrence Russia, includes constant monitoring quarantine mea...

The morphological changes which take place in the differentiation of the adult Drosophila eye from the larval imaginal disc have been described from a histological and cytological standpoint by Shatoury (1956, 1963) and Shatoury & Waddington (1957). In addition, Gottschewski (1960), Gottschewski & Querner (1961), and Schneider (1964) have studied these processes in eyes and brains in vitro. The...