Our essay begins with explication of the notion of eigenform as pioneered by Heinz von Foerster in his papers (Foerster, 1981, pp. 258–271, pp. 274–285, pp. 288–309) and explored in papers of the author (Kauffman, 2003, pp. 73–90, 2005, pp. 129–150; 2009, pp. 121–137, 2010, pp. 48–89). In Foerster (1981, pp. 274–285) the familiar objects of our existence can be seen as tokens for the behaviors ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies about inequality in children's health focused more on physical health than the neurodevelopment. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the inequality in early childhood neurodevelopment in poor rural China and explore the contributions of socioeconomic factors to the inequality. METHOD Information of 2120 children aged 0 to 35 months and their households in six poor ...

Table 1. Summary of the samples collected May-September 1999 and 2000 at four locations along the Illinois shoreline of Lake Michigan. Table 2. Species composition and counts during 1999 and 2000 transect sampling at the reef and reference sites located in the nearshore waters of Lake Michigan. LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Nearshore sites sampled along the Illinois shoreline of Lake Michigan. Figu...

During the period October 2005 - January 2006, five strong earthquakes occurred in Greece as follows: three magnitude 6.0 consecutive earthquakes with almost the same epicenter in the Aegean Sea close to the western coast of Turkey, one magnitude 6.1 in western Greece and one magnitude 6.9 in southern Greece. In March 2005 and September 2005, intense anomalous geoelectric changes were observed ...

Abstract The cockle immerses in the substrate of intertidal zone. Their conditions and growth factors are highly dependent on nutrients around waters Kendari Bay. Therefore, this study aims to determine relationship between length, weight, condition factors. was conducted March 2016 February 2017 at zone samples were collected with a shovel 1x1 m square transect monthly. Furthermore, length wei...

We addressed the so far unexplored issue of outflows induced by exponentially growing power sources, focusing on early supermassive black holes (BHs). We assumed that these objects grow to 109 M by z=6 by Eddington-limited accretion and convert 5% of their bolometric output into a wind. We first considered the case of energy-driven and momentum-driven outflows expanding in a region where the ga...

The earliest documented specimen of an exotic east Asian mosquito Ochlerotatus (Finlaya) japonicis japonicus (Theobald) in the Western Hemisphere is reported along with the results of a state wide survey to determine the distribution and abundance of this mosquito in Connecticut. Ochlerotatus japonicus was collected from 87 locations in eight counties. It is established throughout the state and...

Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) is an important viral disease of grain crops worldwide and a major cause yield loss. The risk periods for BYDV infection coincide with milder temperature that prolongs aphid flight facilitates transmission through primary secondary movement in the crop. Secondary associated greater spread winter cereals. A critical component management therefore delaying sowing ...