BACKGROUND International variation in homicide rates may be attributable to cultural differences in acceptance of moral justifications for killing. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between measures of attitudes towards the justification of killing and homicide rates in diverse international populations. METHODS Four studies assessed variations in acceptance of killing...

The bent functions are the Boolean functions of an even number of variables which are at the maximum possible distance from the set of all affine functions. In this paper, it is shown that each isometric mapping of the set of Boolean functions of n variables to itself preserving the class of bent functions is a combination of an affine transformation of coordinates and a shift by an affine func...

We develop a general formalism to study the renormalization group (RG) improved effective potential for renormalizable gauge theories —including matter-R-gravity— in curved spacetime. The result is given up to quadratic terms in curvature, and one-loop effective potentials may be easiliy obtained from it. As an example, we consider scalar QED, where dimensional transmutation in curved space and...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) viruses were detected in waterfowl at 2 zoos in India in October 2016. Both viruses were different 7:1 reassortants of H5N8 viruses isolated in May 2016 from wild birds in the Russian Federation and China, suggesting virus spread during southward winter migration of birds.

The flat bug genus Longitergus was established by Pham, Bai, Heiss & Cai (2013) with two species: L. productus and L. similis from Vietnam and with L. productus as its type species. Unfortunately, the name Longitergus Pham, Bai, Heiss & Cai (2013) was preoccupied by Longitergus Wang (1993), a subgenus Yezoceryx (Longitergus) Wang, 1993 in Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) based on typ...

Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of inertial particles in random flows S. A. Derevyanko a b , G. Falkovich d , K. Turitsyn c & S. Turitsyn a a Photonics Research Group, Aston University , Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK b Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics , Kharkov, Ukraine (on leave), 61085 c Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics , Moscow, 117940, Russian Federation d Physics of Complex...

Irina V. Kholodenko1*, Alina A. Konieva2, Roman V. Kholodenko3 and Konstantin N. Yarygin1 *Correspondence: [email protected] 1Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow), Russian Federation. 2North Ossetian State Medical Academy (Vladikavkaz), Russian Federation. 3M.M. Shemyakin–Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russia...

I present a new method to generate rotating solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations from static solutions, give several examples of its application, and discuss its general properties. When dealing with exact stationary solutions of the Einstein equations, one sometimes stumbles on the questions, quite easy to ask, but rather difficult to answer: Given some static solution, what is the fami...

Rising global temperatures in recent years have led to a sharp increase the area of desert areas. Desert areas are widely used as pastures. The productivity pastures Uzbekistan is very low, ie 1-3 ts/ha. This limits year-round use One resource-saving and long-term effective ways their plant enclosures, well reclamation forage rows these using plants such Haloxylon aphyllum , Calligonum caput-me...