The naming systems of Linnaeus and Bentham in particular are examined to clarify the relationships between naming and ideas of relationships. Linnaean binomials were adopted largely for practical reasons. Furthermore, Linnaeus proposed his names in the context of system, putting organisms in groups of 10. This allowed botanists of moderate capabilities to know at least the genera. Although bino...

The stability of a recently proposed general relativistic model of galaxies is studied in some detail. This model is a general relativistic version of the well known MiyamotoNagai model that represents well a thick galactic disk. The stability of the disk is investigated under a general first order perturbation keeping the spacetime metric frozen (no gravitational radiation is taken into accoun...

Pièce de salpingectomie réalisée par laparotomie exploratrice pour pélvi-péritonite d'une femme de 27 ans, sans antécédents pathologiques et suivie pour stérilité primaire. En per opératoire, la trompe était dilatée et recouverte de fausses membranes. A l'ouverture de la pièce, la trompe comportait une bougie déformée de 17 cm de long. La reprise de l'interrogatoire a révélé que la patiente a c...

What are the contours of such ―knowledge‖ that does double duty both as a public good or commons and as a source of individual empowerment and liberty? This article offers an analysis of the epistemological organisation of the ―knowledge economy‖ by shooting ethnographic work on Free Software through a playful trompe l‘oeil of Roy Wagner‘s classic piece on Daribi kinship. It offers a preliminar...

WHAT THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT The subtribe Flaveriinae (Asteraceae: Helenieae) includes a number of plant species sometimes called yellowtops, glowworts, and false broomweed. Different species of this subtribe differ in their chemical pathways involved in photosynthesis. Somes species use a system known as C 3 photosynthesis, some use a system known as C 4 photosynthesis, and others display charac...