In the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima contact between non-clonemates often elicits inter-clonal fighting, involving the application of nematocyst-laden fighting tentacles (acrorhagi) and the locomotory retreat of losing polyps. This study confirms that isoclonal aggregations of A. elegantissima display an inducible polymorphism, such that polyps at the inter-clonal boundaries (warriors) ...

Background: Brucellosis is endemic in the Bedouin population of southern Israel, where Poor hygiene and traditional practices including home dairy preparations, animal breeding methods contribute to disease spread. The raising of livestock has great importance in Bedouin culture. Commonly, herds of sheep, goats and camels are maintained in close proximity to living accommodations, resulting in ...

For about a decade, ultra-Orthodox and Bedouin women have been applying to higher education academic institutions in Israel in order to study despite bans from their conservative communities. Academic studies instill learning and culture, create an encounter with knowledge for the individual and thus carry a high degree of threat to the rigid conservative enclave. This article examines how cons...

and conventional practitioners. The second chapter focused on Bedouins’ healing practices in a variety of human ailments. The third chapter discussed general treatments and methods used by Bedouins, and these are related to birds, reptiles, animals, and camel milk. The last chapter was on Bedouins’s belief in “Qarina”, which is a Jinn and indicated by 12 different names. In the author’s opinion...

A basic precondition of social life is that conflicts must be resolved when you need each other. A new study shows that men affiliate more after one-on-one conflicts than women. This reflects the deep evolutionary history of male bonding.

The distribution and abundance of plant species are strongly linked to the physical environmental and thus to anthropogenic disturbances. Changes in desert vegetation, in particular, can have drastic impacts on human livelihoods in these areas as ecosystem services may be affected (Dubroeucq and Livenais 2004; Klintenberg et al. 2007; Käyhkö et al. 2011; Rohde and Hoffman 2012). The Wadi Allaqi...

Two methods of evolving Corewars programs are compared, one against a xed set of opponents, another against the other programs in the generation. The xed opponent system improves faster initially but is limited overall. The second is slower to evolve but achieves a better nal result. EVOLVING COREWARS WARRIORS Corewars[1] is a game where two programs written in a language called redcode, try to...

Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinct...

Provision of accessible acceptable health care in remote rural areas poses a challenge to health care providers. This case study of formal and informal health care provision for Bedouin in North East Jordan is based on interviews conducted in 2007-2008 involving clinic providers, policymakers and Bedouin as part of an EC funded study from 2006 to 2010. The paper explores to what extent the righ...

CONTEXT Premarital carrier matching is a form of genetic counselling in which two individuals are told, if both are carriers, that they have a 25% risk at each pregnancy of having a child affected by the disease for which they were tested. If only one individual is a carrier this information is not disclosed. This scheme is offered to a consanguineous Bedouin community characterised by high pre...