Although it is widely recognized that the image of the writer as a prophetic figure has played an unusually prominent and persistent role in the development of the Russian literary tradition, this intriguing phenomenon has not received the close critical attention that it deserves. West European literary tradition provides a well-established context for the image, stretching from Homer and Virg...

A referendum to recall President Hugo Chávez was held in Venezuela in August of 2004. In the referendum, voters were to vote YES if they wished to recall the President and NO if they wanted him to continue in office. The official results were 59% NO and 41% YES. Even though the election was monitored by various international groups including the Organization of American States and the Carter Ce...

Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between 1 Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys 2 3 4 5 Wilbert Zarco, Hugo Merchant, Luis Prado, Juan Carlos Mendez 6 7 8 9 Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, campus Juriquilla, México. 10 Correspondence to: 11 Dr. Hugo Merchant, 12 Phone: 442-238-1040 13 Fax: 442-238-1005 14 E-mail: [email protected] 15 16 17 18 Running Head: Productio...

— From August 1993 to August 1994, bats were surveyed on Montserrat, Lesser Antilles. Four years after this small volcanic island was struck by Hurricane Hugo (1989), there remains a 20-fold decrease in bat populations as compared to levels before Hugo. After the hurricane, composition of the community shifted from smaller frugivorous species to one of more omnivorous and larger frugivorous spe...