The following article prints a new manuscript by John Locke: commentary on A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie (1669) Samuel Parker (1640–88), the religious controversialist. Locke's interest in Parker's work has been known to scholars since 1954, when notes Locke roughly one thousand words were purchased Bodleian Library. reports discovery an unknown portion this commentary: three University...

In connection with experiments by one of us on the effect of high temperature on the amount of crossing over in Drosophila it became obvious that differences exist among various cultures of this fly in the ability to withstand temperatures above the normal range and in the ability to breed at these temperatures. A series of comparative tes ts was therefore undertaken in order to gain more accur...

Proper data placement schemes based on erasure correcting code are one of the most important components for a highly available data storage system. A new class of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) array codes is presented for correcting triple storage failures, which is an extension of the double-erasure-correcting EVENODD code and is called the HDD-EOD code. The encoding and decoding procedures...

n the last few decades, the increasing pervasiveness of Western culture around the globe has tolled the death knell for cultural distinctiveness as we previously knew it. American economic interests, in particular, have done a remarkable job of spreading the symbols of American prosperity around the world. So well, for example, that the world’s busiest McDonald’s operates not in the United Stat...

Building on Ernest Gellner’s theory of the nation-state and drawing insights from John Lukacs George Kennan, this article contends that major powers contemporary Indo-Pacific are characterized by conflicting nationalisms. Homogenizing nationalism seeks to form China—a former multiethnic empire—into a unitary nation-state. Budding fascism endeavors transform India—founded as secular state—into H...