The cockroach Leucophaea maderae was the first animal in which lesion experiments localized an endogenous circadian clock to a particular brain area, the optic lobe. The neural organization of the circadian system, however, including entrainment pathways, coupling elements of the bilaterally distributed internal clock, and output pathways controlling circadian locomotor rhythms are only recentl...

T he first step in investigating an alleged arson fire is to make certain that the fire was, in fact, intentionally set. Except in the most obvious cases, this step requires expert assistance from a knowledgeable fire investigator. Unfortunately, many practicing fire investigators in the United States today are not knowledgeable, and this has led to several high-profile miscarriages of justice....

The need for methodologies in the domain of agent-based system has been discussed by several studies [2, 3, 13, 14, 15]. For example, according to [13] AOSE is a key factor for introducing agent-based systems to the industry as an engineering approach. During the last decade, there was a blooming of agent-oriented methodologies. More than two dozen methodologies (see Appendix) were developed ba...

We present the results of N-band spectro-interferometric observations of the silicate carbon star IRAS08002-3803 with the MID-infrared Interferometric instrument (MIDI) at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The observations were carried out using two unit telescopes (UT2 and UT3) with projected baseline lengths ranging from 39 to 47 m. Our...

The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is involved in the cardiac and vascular remodeling associated with cardiovascular diseases. Angiotensin (Ang) II/AT(1) axis is known to promote cardiac hypertrophy and collagen deposition. In contrast, Ang-(1-7)/Mas axis opposes Ang II effects in the heart producing anti-trophic and anti-fibrotic effects. Exercise training is known to induce cardiac remodeling...

In a recent paper the second author has shown that some of the usual hypotheses on consumers’ preferences are not needed for the proof of existence of a Walrasian General Equilibrium [Mas-Cole11 (1974)]. Specifically, it is not necessary that preferences come from a preference ordering. The only order property required is irreflexivity (meaning that a given commodity bundle is not preferred to ...