18 As the popular saying goes, the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Given its inevitability, it is no surprise that death—and the ageing process that precedes it—has fascinated humans for centuries. However, it is only with the development of modern science that we are now beginning to understand why our bodies grow older and more frail until we eventually die. As theories have ...

The neurosciences have advanced to the point that we can now treat consciousness as a scientific problem like any other. The problem is to explain how brain processes cause consciousness and how consciousness is realized in the brain. Progress is impeded by a number of philosophical mistakes, and the aim of this paper is to remove nine of those mistakes: (i) consciousness cannot be defined; (ii...

www.pharmtech.com rational approach to scale-up has been used in the physical sciences for quite some time. This approach, called dimensional analysis, is a proven method of developing functional relationships that describe any given process in a dimensionless form to facilitate modeling and scale-up or scale-down. This short article reviews and demonstrates the dimensional analysis method as a...