The improvement in the public health during the past century has resulted in an increased expectation of life. Today the public have gone a step further, and they are showing an increasing interest not only in the quantity of life available to each person but also in the quality of that life. Certainly what prevents many from enjoying a full and productive life within the affluent society in wh...

The Microscience and Microscopy Congress (mmc) is the standout event of microscopist’s calendar. This July, hundreds delegates signed into a virtual mmc2021 to see latest research advancements in microscopy, spanning both physical life sciences.

occasion of his 65th birthday. Mario is a unique combination of enthusiasm and mathematical talent, scientific devotion and altru-ism. He contributed massively and in a significant way to research in computer science. During the last decade his research was focused on membrane computing, where he contributed fundamental results especially related to computational complexity as well as results r...

Five experiments explored the hypothesis that thinking about one's own death activates thoughts about enjoying one's life as moderated by culture. Given that Eastern cultures, relative to Western ones, are more holistic and endorse notions of "yin and yang" (e.g., where "good" and "bad" coexist in all things), we hypothesized that East Asians would be more likely than European Americans to thin...

starting his intellectual life as a precociously young medical practitioner, quṭb al-dīn shīrāzī (634-710 a.h.) was compelled to wander far and wide in his quest for knowledge. recognized and admired as a savant, and enjoying the patronage of key political figures of his era, shīrāzī's activities as a scholar continued even during his appointment as judge in rūm, and while serving as ambas...