The rock-paper-scissors game is a paradigmatic model for biodiversity, with applications ranging from microbial populations to human societies. Research has shown, however, that mobility jeopardizes biodiversity by promoting the formation of spiral waves, especially if there is no conservation law in place for the total number of competing players. First, we show that even if such a conservatio...

By virtue of its central role in maintaining intravascular and extracellular volume, sodium is essential to human survival. Taste, habit, environment, genes, and behaviour probably all influence sodium intake. In view of the heterogeneity that characterizes humankind, it is remarkable that the vast majority of the world’s citizens, everywhere, given free access to salt, consume between 100 and ...

Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved the wake of Lutheran Reformation (1550), to virtually disappear with time from face earth. Although highly promising archeological excavations are under way, our material points access this important monastic foundation still only a handful medieval artifacts. However, throughout its existence an inordinately large producer Latin Icelandic liter...

Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights is the first instalment of his award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials. In this alternate-worlds fantasy and children’s literature classic, Lyra her daemon Pan are catapulted from relative stability Oxford to negotiate an increasingly threatening world in a quest protect free will cataclysmic adult zealotry. According prophecy, chosen one; she conforms tropes p...

throughout history there have always been debates and disagreements concerning the limits of the attributes of the purified imams (a.s.), whether within the shī‘ī circles or outside them. perhaps the most controversial of them has been the book published in recent years entitled, maktab dar farāyand-i takāmul (school in the process of evolution). in this research, with a critical review of the ...

All possible pro and con arguments regarding the theory of evolution have been discussed and debated in the vast literature-scientific, religious, and lay-in the past 150 years. There is usually great zealotry in all debating parties, with mutual intolerance of ideas and concepts, disrespect toward opposing opinions and positions, and usage of very harsh language. This prejudiced approach usual...

Book Description: Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publici...

Much of the power of the UNIX operating system comes from a style of program design that makes programs easy to use and, more important, easy to combine with other programs. This style has been called the use of software tools, and depends more on how the programs fit into the programming environment how they can be used with other programs than on how they are designed internally. But as the s...