Objective To study the cultural differences in moral disengagement, which lends support to attitudes used to justify violence. Methods We carried out classroom surveys of a total of 3122 students in the USA (Houston, TX, and Washington, DC) and in four European countries — Estonia (Tartu), Finland (Helsinki), Romania (Satu Mare) and the Russian Federation (St Petersburg). Data were also taken f...

Jiandong Wang,1 Zhuoyi Ye,2 Alexandra Miller,3 Yi Hu,2,3 Cibo Lou,2 Peng Zhang,3 Zhigang Chen,2,3 and Jianke Yang4,* 1College of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 2TEDA Applied Physical School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Californi...

Diplocirrus Haase, 1915, includes flabelligerids having cylindrical to club-shaped bodies, with cirriform papillae, multiarticulate chaetae in both parapodial rami, 8 branchial filaments of two types (thick and rarely lamellate, or cirriform), gonopodial lobes in chaetigers 5 or 6, or multiple gonopores along some anterior chaetigers. Bradiella Rullier, 1965, has included only the type species:...

Halophytes, gypsicoles and serpentinicoles are adapted to specialized edaphic conditions at arid semi-arid regions. These areas possess physical chemical stress factors for all plants. For these plants, one of the most important parameter that provides tolerance is proline accumulation. Proline a water-soluble amino acid generally accumulated under behave like an indicator adaptation plants aga...

On July 7tli, 1893, Kali, a Hindu labourer, aged about 27, was admitted to the Monghyr Hospital, with the history that a large bag of salt had fallen on the back of his head. At the time of his admission he had complete paralysis of the muscles of the lower limbs, abdomen and thorax and back. In the upper extremity a very slight pain of flexion of the forearm, and perhaps of pronation, was prac...

This research on the basic demographic processes and marital migrations of the population on Ugljan Island in the period from 1857 to 2001 was conducted within the context of the long-term anthropological research of the population structure of Croatia's islands. The analysis was based on the study of the origin of 5 244 married couples from Preko, Kali, Kukljica, Lukoran and Ugljan and carried...

Devaki Jain is a renowned writer and activist from India. She began her career as an economist but gave up a prestigious tenured university position to devote herself to a range of activities revolving around women, their living conditions, their situations, their strengths and their quest for a peaceful and just world. Devaki helped to develop networks of advocates for women's empowerment, inc...

Results The data analyzed so far revealed the presence of different pollen and fungal species at both sites. The ratio between the pollen and fungal spores was 1:5. The airborne pollen grains showed quantitative and qualitative differences between the two sites. At FD site, the major pollen grains included Phoenix dactylifera (31%), grass pollen (14%), Atriplex nummularia (12%), Amaranthus viri...