In quantum gravity, several approaches have been proposed until now for the quantum description of discrete geometries. These theoretical frameworks include loop quantum gravity, causal dynamical triangulations, causal sets, quantum graphity, and energetic spin networks. Most of these approaches describe discrete spaces as homogeneous network manifolds. Here we define Complex Quantum Network Ma...

In his book on behavioural endocrinology, Randy Nelson describes 'stress' as a 'notoriously ethereal concept'. Yet, despite this lack of clarity, studies of the consequences of stress across different time scales, life history stages, taxa and levels of biological enquiry form a large part of modern biology and biomedicine. Organisms need to recognise and respond to environmental challenges. Be...

It is twenty years since the first symposium on research in chemical education was held at the American Chemical Society meeting in St. Louis in 1984. Over the course of two decades, the number of people who have devoted their careers to doing research on the teaching and learning of chemistry has increased significantly. There have also been significant developments in the methodology for doin...

The minimal faithful permutation degree of a finite group G, denote by μ(G) is the least non-negative integer n such that G embeds inside the symmetric group Sym(n). In this paper, we outline a Magma proof that 10 is the smallest degree for which there are groups G and H such that μ(G×H) < μ(G) + μ(H).

We study in detail the possibility that the flat directions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model ~MSSM! could act as a curvaton and generate the observed adiabatic density perturbations. For that the flat direction energy density has to dominate the Universe at the time when it decays. We point out that this is not possible if the inflaton decays into MSSM degrees of freedom. If the inf...

Consider a Hamiltonian system with d degrees of freedom whose motions are all linear on tori of some xed dimension n d; is such a system necessarily completely (or else non{commutatively) integrable? We show that the answer is aaermative under quite broad conditions, but not always, and we provide counterexamples.

Five experiments investigated whether observer locomotion provides specialized information facilitating novel-view scene recognition. Participants detected a position change after briefly viewing a desktop scene when the table stayed stationary or was rotated and when the observer stayed stationary or locomoted. The results showed that 49 degrees novel-view scene recognition was more accurate w...

The introduction of the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) has raised serious concerns about the discipline's continuing ability to build its body of knowledge at an appropriate rate. After noting the various concerns that have been raised that the DNP siphons off prospective doctor of philosophy (PhD) students and compromises the standing of schools of nursing in universities, the distinct but c...

In this paper we introduce projective geometry and one of its important theorems. We begin by defining projective space in terms of homogenous coordinates. Next, we define homgenous curves, and describe a few important properties they have. We then introduce Bezout’s Theorem, which asserts that the number of intersection points of two homogenous curves is less than or equal to the product of th...

We review the behavior of epidemic spreading on complex networks in which there are explicit correlations among the degrees of connected vertices.