This is a somewhat mechanistic (and simplistic) exegesis of the production-distribution linkage. However, it is one with profound implications for public policy. What it suggests, particularly where collective action is concerned, is the possibility of a social “taking” of wealth (or income) from some to be then disbursed to others considered to be more deserving. According to Mill, such a redi...

Narseh son of Šābuhr I reigned from 293 to 302, once he had won the dynastic war that saw him opposing his grand-nephew, Wahrām III, narrated events in great Paikuli inscription, which also contains names a long list nobles and magnates, who paid obeisance new king. In Šābuhr’s inscription at Naqš-i Rustam bore title « King Hindestān, Sagestān Tūrān up seashore,” while later, likely under eithe...

E conomists typically view their discipline as a progressive science in which superior new ideas relentlessly supplant inferior old ones in a Darwinian struggle toward the truth. Thus it came as something of a shock when Milton Friedman challenged this belief in the May 1975 issue of the American Economic Review. In response to the question “What have we learned in the past 25 years?”, Friedman...

typological studies of language show that there is no direct relationship between syntactic and semantic roles of the purpose. the difficulties of the literary comprehensions, in part, depend on the lack of information about the semantic approaches of the syntactic roles. the present study is to investigate this aspect in the verbal rhythms of khaqani's odes. the research has been conducte...

Research in the teaching and learning of evolutionary biology has revealed persistent difficulties in student understanding of fundamental Darwinian concepts. These difficulties may be traced, in part, to science instruction that is based on philosophical conceptions of science that are no longer viewed as adequately characterizing the diverse nature of scientific practice, especially in evolut...

Health professionals working in organisations promoting health through social and environmental justice have a good track record. Poverty is the greatest violence Ghandi Do health professionals have a responsibility to identify, and attempt to correct the social and environmental wrongs that so undermine our personal and collective health? The organisation of which I am presently chairman, Meda...

Individuals living in houses with a high radon concentration have a significantly increased frequency of chromosomal aberrations in peripheral lymphocytes, the a-dose being delivered mainly by the radon daughter nuclides "'Po and 214PO. Some epidemiological and geographical studies have suggested an association between a-particle exposure via radon and the occurrence of leukaemia, brain tumours...

Static inspection is about the removal of obvious fault or inconsistency before a prod uct is even tested. It forms an indispensable part of all conventional engineering disciplines except for software engineering. For example, when a microcomputer is reviewed, the reviewer will inevitably remove the case, exposing the boards to inspect their quality of build, and make astute judgemen t s as to...

This study compares the performance and robustness of single loop and cascaded bandpass delta-sigma analog-to-digital (A/D) converter architectures. A 4 order single loop modulator and a 4 order 1-1 cascaded architecture are designed to provide a basis for comparison of SNR performance and robustness to capacitor mismatch and finite operational amplifier gain variations. Several different appro...

The shocking case last February, when a junior academic denied tenure by her faculty at the University of Alabama went on a murderous shooting rampage at a departmental meeting, can be dismissed as the act of a lunatic. However, it highlights the pressures confronted daily by young scientists seeking to establish their careers. Without dwelling on the details of the case, which are anyway a jud...