Context. The migration of growing protoplanets depends on the thermodynamics of the ambient disc. Standard modelling, using locally isothermal discs, indicate in the low planet mass regime an inward (type-I) migration. Taking into account non-isothermal effects, recent studies have shown that the direction of the type-I migration can change from inward to outward. Aims. In this paper we extend ...

Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe. In many countries, policy-makers have responded by introducing gender quotas in politics and increasingly, many have expressed an interest in requiring gender quotas for corporate boards. This paper reviews the evidence on the eq...

Traditional concepts of optimality in economics, operations research and management sciences are characterized by maximizing (or minimizing) a single objective function, i.e., Max f(x) or Max U(J(x)) subject to constraints X. This usually explicates a unique solution x* subject to all x E X, i.e., considering only the decision alternatives Of options belonging to a fixed, constrained set. As a ...

The historical literature suggests that there are unusual physical, as well as psychological, consequences in humans to the attainment of the exalted state of mind known as enlightenment, nirvana or samadhi. These reported changes include, but are not limited to, sudden reversal of aging, emergence of a light body and observed bodily ascension into the sky. This paper proposes a “jumping DNA” o...

Nuestro estudio se estructura en tres hipótesis intrínsecamente entrelazadas, que intentaremos confirmar a lo largo de éste: primer lugar, sostenemos relación al mundo como representación (Vorstellung) y voluntad (Wille), Schopenhauer apoya casi exclusivamente el Vedānta, mientras sus referencias “la negaci.n la voluntad” (die Verneigung des Willens zum Leben) hay una innegable alusión budismo....

T he software industry stands on feet of clay. However carefully we may strive to build correct and reliable software, we have no way of guaranteeing the quality of the result. Building correct and reliable software depends on the quality of so much else, from the hardware and the operating system to the compiler and the runtime libraries. And any significant software system has so many details...

For a few years I, along with Dr. Kopansky-Giles, have been fulfilling my CMCC faculty role at the outpatient chiropractic clinic integrated into the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital (SMH). Besides caring for patients referred by SMH family physicians, HIV Positive Care Clinic, and Employee Health, we collaborate in patient education programmes with our physio...

We have used the vectorised and parallelised MHD code NIRVANA on the NEC SX-5 in parallel mode to simulate the interaction of jets with a dense environment on a scale of more than 200 jet radii. A maximum performance of 0.75 GFLOP per processor could be reached. One simulation is axisymmetric and purely hydrodynamic, but with a resolution of 20 points per beam-radius (ppb). The bipolar jet is i...