The two most influential biologists in history, Darwin and Mendel, were contemporaries and yet the initial acceptance of their ideas suffered very different fates. Darwin was concerned with the evolution of complex traits (and hence concepts from population and quantitative genetics), while Mendel was concerned with the transmission of traits that had a simple genetic basis (often a single gene...

The two most influential biologists in history, Darwin and Mendel, were contemporaries and yet the initial acceptance of their ideas suffered very different fates. Darwin was concerned with the evolution of complex traits (and hence concepts from population and quantitative genetics), while Mendel was concerned with the transmission of traits that had a simple genetic basis (often a single gene...

I have been finding some openings (as the old Quakers used to say) in the book of Joshua recently. In the past when I’ve read the book, I always felt somewhat disappointed: not much life in it apart from the dramatic crossing of Jordan and the conquest of Jericho. But lately there’s been fresh illumination in my reading of it, and so I take it that we are entering the time in which our Lord is ...

u. t. place claims that philosophical problems concerning the true nature of mind-brain relationship disappears or is settled adhering to materialism, especially type identity theory of mind. he takes above claim as a reasonable scientific hypothesis. i shall argue why it is not as he claims. at first, to pave the way for refutation, i will briefly clarify place's approach to the subject i...

Over the past two decades, South African higher education (HE) sector has highlighted usefulness of a locally relevant curriculum that incorporates culture. There is also some research calling for integration culture and an emphasis on Africanized curriculum. However, these related concepts (culture Africanization) have yet to be sufficiently applied in HE as part transformation drive. The pres...

Background and Aims: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of inherited retinal degeneration, photoreceptors loss of which in the retina causes visual loss. The purpose of the present study was to determine patterns of inheritance in RP patients in Yazd to help the health professional for designing suitable laboratory testing for the high risk families. Materials and Methods: Thirt...

DR LIBMAN: Mr S is a 50-year-old man with chronic low back pain. In the mid-1970s he developed persistent right leg pain and was diagnosed by myelogram as having a herniated disk. L5-S1diskectomywasperformedin1977withmodestimprovement in his leg pain. He developed low back pain, which was treatedwithphysical therapyandnonopioidandopioiddrugs. Over the next decade, his intermittent back and righ...

A large variety of di erent concepts have been introduced to express the subtypes and inheritance. Single inheritance, multiple inheritance, independent multiple inheritance and delegation are all various forms of subtyping and inheritance. In this paper, we give a structural framework for the semantics of these concepts that allows one to distinguish them in a precise manner. This framework ac...